Immunization Quotes

• Each human life hypothetically saved by implementing these [radiation] regulations costs about $2.5 billion. Such costs are absurd and immoral, especially when compared to the costs of saving lives by immunization against measles, diphtheria and pertussis, which in developing countries range between $50 and $99 per one human life saved.

  

  Zbigniew Jaworowski
  • Life
  • Country
  • Cost

• I believe in truths, but I don't believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as capital T, that scientists are privy to, has been a very counterproductive vision. It has served scientists very well, but what it has done, above all, is encloses the world of science and immunize it from criticism.

  

  Evelyn Fox Keller
  • Truth
  • Criticism
  • Scientists

• Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite. It is possible to get your kids immunised, but you really have to want to.

  

  Esther Duflo
  • Children
  • Want
  • Upset

• Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.

  

  Seth Berkley
  • Children
  • Development
  • Investment

• The institutionalizing of the church is essentially its immunization to an evangelistic impulse.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Church
  • Immunization
  • Institutionalize