
Interview in the documentary-film The Game Changers by Louie Psihoyos (2018).
Title of article published in Natural Genetics (1992), 2:251-2; cited in Stephen Waxman (2010) Molecular Neurology. p. 536
Interview in the documentary-film The Game Changers by Louie Psihoyos (2018).
“That disease
Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.”
The Roaring Girl (co-written with Thomas Dekker, 1611), Act i. Sc. 1. Compare: "So for a good old gentlemanly vice,/I think I must take up with avarice", Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto i. stanza 216.
“Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
“Diseases of the mind are more common and more pernicious than diseases of the body.”
Morbi perniciosiores pluresque sunt animi quam corporis.
Book III, Chapter III
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (45 BC)
Nobel Address (1991)
Context: After a time of rampant separatism and euphoria, when almost every village proclaimed sovereignty, a centripetal force is beginning to gather momentum, based on a more sensible view of existing realities and the risks involved. And this is what counts most now. There is a growing will to achieve consensus, and a growing understanding that we have a State, a country, a common life. This is what must be preserved first of all.
“It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.”
Act V, scene 3, line 18 (803).
Adelphoe (The Brothers)
“It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.”
Act V, scene 8, line 30 (953).
Adelphoe (The Brothers)
“for it is not having insufficient knowledge, but persisting a long time in insufficient knowledge that is shameful; since the one is assumed to be a disease common to all, but the other is assumed to be a flaw to an individual.”
non enim parum cognosse, sed in parum cognito stulte et diu perseverasse turpe est, propterea quod alterum communi hominum infirmitati alterum singulari cuiusque vitio est attributum.
De Inventione, Section 2.9.3
Variant: Any man can make mistakes, but only a fool persists in his error.
“One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)