Pathology Quotations

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

In 1973, I left the Rockefeller University to join the Yale University Medical School. The main reason for the move was my belief that the time had come for fruitful interactions between the new discipline of Cell Biology and the traditional fields of interest of medical schools, namely Pathology and Clinical Medicine.

In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it?

When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consciousness, the powerhouse of the human body, sitting in my hands.

Given that HA is responsible for so much pathology in the lung, if we could identify the mechanism for how that happens and then block it, perhaps it would be useful for antiviral development. With the identification of the polymerase genes contributing to disease, that represents another set of genes that might also be a good target for prophylactic and therapeutic interventions.

We are gaining more understanding of the pathology and mechanisms behind the development of cerebral palsy. And with this understanding, we may be able to prevent some cases of cerebral palsy in the future, for example through vaccinations against infectious agents.

The overall picture we have now is that glutamine expansion causes some aspects of the pathology of SCA1 in part by enhancing the activity of the domain that is outside the glutamine repeat.

We still have time to prevent the pathology from becoming an epidemic if Turkish veterinary services receive the necessary aid from international organizations.

As the field stands, viewing pathology as anything other than pathogenic is controversial. Saying it is protective is heretical.

The big problem, of course, is that the number of people on whom real extensive pathology has been carried out is limited.

The TV is an out, an excuse for not having eye contact or for not having to come up with something interesting to say. Is it pathological? Yes. Is it sad? Yes. But pathology and sadness are part of 20th century American life.

It's really critical that we find ways to prevent, or at least delay the onset of, cognitive decline. Once the pathology is established in the brain, it's very difficult to treat. We need better ways to prevent the disease in the first place, which could make a huge difference for the future.

I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.

The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do.

The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.

The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.

I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for it is our envy and admiration of the rich that supports their habit and keeps us hooked ourselves

Colorado State University's crops testing program, bean breeding program, bean pathology research, and agricultural research stations join together to conduct uniform variety trials annually to provide unbiased and reliable variety performance results from uniform variety trials to help Colorado dry bean producers' make better variety decisions,

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health...

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.