Epidemiology Quotes

If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different, and largely contradictory, set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place. Epidemiology, not evidence. (Richard Dawkins)
Ten years ago, you could have traveled thousands of miles through the United States and never seen a baseball cap turned back to front. Today, the reverse baseball cap is ubiquitous. I do not know what the pattern of geographical spread of the reverse baseball cap precisely was, but epidemiology is certainly among the professions primarily qualified to study it. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Epidemiology is like a bikini: what is revealed is interesting; what is concealed is crucial. View quote
Peter Duesberg
Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology. View quote
Jill Lepore