Ronald Ross Quotes

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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
The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.

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I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

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In this, 0 Nature, yield, I pray, to me. I pace and pace, and think and think, and take The fever'd hands, and note down all I see, That some dim distant light may haply break. The painful faces ask, can we not cure? We answer, No, not yet; we seek the laws. O God, reveal thro' all this thing obscure The unseen, small, but million-murdering cause.

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I cannot help remembering the dingy little military hospital, the old cracked microscope, and the medicine bottles which constituted all the laboratory and apparatus which I possessed for the purpose of attacking one of the most redoubtable of scientific problems.

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O Moon! When I look at thy beautiful face, Careening along through the boundaries of space The thought has quite frequently come to my mind If ever I'll gaze on thy glorious behind.

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I was tired, and what was the use? I must have examined the stomachs of a thousand mosquitoes by this time. But the Angel of Fate fortunately laid his hand on my head [when he discovered that parasites carrying malaria lived in mosquitoes].

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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.

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