We started the whole network in 1947 from this laboratory on behalf of the WHO, so the World Influenza Center at the NIMR has been at the center of the World Health Organization influenza surveillance since it started at the beginning.

The laboratory is the highest containment laboratory that you can make and, from that point of view, nothing will come out except completely inactivated material. So, I think, they can be reassured about that.

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world (The Relapse)

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.

I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.