Microbiologist

🇫🇷Louis Pasteur

Science

1904–1989

"S’il est terrifiant de penser que la vie puisse être à la merci de la multiplication de ces infiniment petits, il est consolant aussi d’espérer que la science ne restera pas toujours impuissante devant de tels ennemis."

"It is you who judges who you are. In this way, the judgment is accurate."

🇵🇱Włodzimierz Ptak

Science

1928–2019

"People spend unnecessarily high amounts of money on drugs or supplements that support immunity , meanwhile they do more harm to themselves by their way of life, for example by inadequate diet."

🇪🇹Tedros Adhanom

Politics

b. 1965

"COVID-19 is taking so much from us. But it’s also giving us something special – the opportunity to come together as one humanity – to work together, to learn together, to grow together."

"Based on the virus genome and properties, there is no indication whatsoever that it was an engineered virus."

"Momentum of the Wuhan virus epidemic outbreak may decline in 20 days based on the current prevention and control measures of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus."

🇺🇸Joan Slonczewski

Science

b. 1956

"She watched the indigo sky, and the stars coming out tranquil as ever, as if this were any ordinary evening. Only humans knew what an evil time this was."

🇺🇸Leonard Hayflick

Medicine

1928–2024

"Age-related sensory changes can be traced to degeneration in some of the cells and cell products that compose the sense organ itself."

🇺🇸Lynn Margulis

Science

1938–2011

"Identity is not an object; it is a process with addresses for all the different directions and dimensions in which it moves, and so it cannot so easily be fixed with a single number."