Ronald Ross Professions : Medical doctor Born : May 13, 1857 Died : September 16, 1932 Browse All Authors Top 13 quotes by Ronald Ross The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be. Ronald Ross simple years ideas 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 beautiful science art This day relenting God Ronald Ross god discovery men 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 war science fall 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 mosquitoes what-if growing The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope. Ronald Ross panama-canal microscopes science 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 malaria failure science Active management is little more than a gigantic con game. Ronald Ross active-management investing games Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill. Ronald Ross wall luck skills Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have as yet obtained very few individuals, I succeeded in finding in two of them certain remarkable and suspicious cells containing pigment identical in appearance to that of the parasite of malaria. As these cells appear to me to be very worthy of attention ... I think it would be advisable to place on record a brief description both of the cells and of the mosquitos. Ronald Ross discovery science thinking The work ... was ... so blinding that I could scarcely see afterwards, and the difficulty was increased by the fact that my microscope was almost worn out, the screws being rusted with sweat from my hands and forehead, and my only remaining eye-piece being cracked... Fortunately invaluable oil-imraersion object-glass remained good. Ronald Ross glasses eye hands Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the eaves of the veranda. I did not allow the punka to be used because it blew about my dissected mosquitoes, which were partly examined without a cover-glass; and the result was that swarms of flies and of 'eye-flies' - minute little insects which try to get into one's ears and eyelids - tormented me at their pleasure Ronald Ross eye dark science On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial. Ronald Ross some cells found two Similar Authors Izzeldin Abuelaish medical-doctor Augusta Stowe-Gullen medical-doctor Bernard Nathanson medical-doctor Frederick Banting medical-doctor Mamphela Ramphele medical-doctor Pierre Dukan medical-doctor All Authors
