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Your Quotes for 27 December 2005 - Germs

Louis Pasteur was born at Dole, France on this day in 1822. Pasteur proved that most diseases were caused by invisible menaces we call germs, news that was met by most physicians and experts of the time exactly as a six-year-old boy might - they ignored it and refused to wash their hands. Some quotes on germs and disease seemed appropriate.

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
     - Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 - 1996

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
     - George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
     - George Santayana, 1863 - 1921

Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.
     - Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse

The Germ
A mighty creature is the germ,
Though smaller than a pachyderm.
His customary dwelling place
Is deep within the human race.
His childish pride he often pleases
By giving people strange diseases.
Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?
You probably contain a germ.
     - Ogden Nash, 1902 - 1971

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