The Chemical Age Quotes

“The truth is,” he wrote, “that for some inexplicable reason men will never recognize the transcendent importance of investigation into the causes of those great diseases which destroy them.”65”
― Frank von Hippel, The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth

“Meanwhile, Pasteur developed vaccines for anthrax, chicken cholera, and rabies, the last of which he first tried in 1885, with success, on a nine-year-old boy named Joseph Meister who had been bitten by a rabid dog.42 The Pasteur Institute subsequently employed Meister as gatekeeper; fifty-five years after Pasteur saved his life, Meister committed suicide so that he could not be forced to open Pasteur’s crypt for Nazi invaders.”
― Frank von Hippel, The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth