“I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you...But maybe I'll come back as some HeLa cells like my mother, that way we can do good together out there in the world.”
“Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge. Many scientists believed that since patients were treated for free in the public wards, it was fair to use them as research subjects as a form of payment.”
“If the whole profession is doing it, how can you call it ‘unprofessional conduct’?”
“He dreamed of never-ending life for those he deemed worthy, and death or forced sterilization for everyone else."
" He’d later praise Hitler for the “energetic measures” he took in that direction”
“With the ability to identify genes from a blood sample or even a single cell, the risk of a blood draw was no longer just a minor infection or the pain of a needle stick—it was that someone could uncover your genetic information.