Quotes by Anthony Fauci

Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

— Anthony Fauci

Education

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

— Anthony Fauci

Education

Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

There's always going to be the need for new medications, better medications.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.

— Anthony Fauci

Education

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy. But this is not anxiety without a purpose. No, this anxiety keeps me humble. It creates a healthy tension that serves as the catalyst that drives me to fulfill my limited potential.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored.

— Anthony Fauci

Education

Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is 'absolutely not;' but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is something that you need to stay away from.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

It's extremely likely that the people who have never been exposed to a human who has leprosy, it's very likely they got leprosy from exposure to an armadillo.

— Anthony Fauci

Life

It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

— Anthony Fauci

Love

Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

Some of the most vulnerable people to getting the SARS virus are health care providers. The general public, walking in the street, there is really not that much risk at all. It's a very, very low risk - a very, very low risk.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.

— Anthony Fauci

Wisdom

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

— Anthony Fauci

Success