Ronald Ross
"The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be."
— Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
"Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined."
— Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
"The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. ... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner."
— Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
"This day relenting God
Hath placed within my hand
A wondrous thing; and God
Be praised. At His command,
Seeking His secret deeds
With tears and toiling breath,
I find thy cunning seeds,
O million-murdering Death.
I know this little thing
A myriad men will save.
O Death, where is thy sting?
Thy victory, O Grave?"
Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.
— Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
"The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do not generally view the phenomena from a sufficiently high biological standpoint. To me, at least, they seem to attach too much importance to individual rulers and soldiers, and to particular wars, policies, religions, and customs; while at the same time they make little attempt to extract the fundamental causes of national success or failure."
— Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
"I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.
Ronald Ross"
— Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
"Active management is little more than a gigantic con game."
— Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
"Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill."
— Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
"The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope."
— Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
"The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner."
— Ronald Ross (1857-1932)