Peter C. Doherty

I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

The two things that I miss most when living out of Australia are the bush and the Pacific coast, especially fishing in the surf at night!

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.

Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.