This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His … - Ronald Ross

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All humans can do more than they think they can do. So I think we can all actually be more superhuman than we think we can.

Ronald Ross

This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret deeds With tears and toiling breath, I find thy cunning seeds, O million-murdering Death. I know this little thing A myriad men will save. O Death, where is thy sting? Thy victory, O Grave? Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.

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The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.

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Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.

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The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do not generally view the phenomena from a sufficiently high biological standpoint. To me, at least, they seem to attach too much importance to individual rulers and soldiers, and to particular wars, policies, religions, and customs; while at the same time they make little attempt to extract the fundamental causes of national success or failure.

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The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. . . . She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.

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The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.

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