Medicine Quotes - Page 33

• I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Foundation, Aging, Problem

  "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Lasts, Revolution, Normal

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• No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Lying, Doctors, Littles

  Medical Essays 'Current and Counter-Currents in Medical Science'

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• There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.

  Ben Goldacre

  Teaching, Differences, Crafts

  "Teachers need to drive the research agenda" by Ben Goldacre, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2013.

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• Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Water

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.18

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• As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so also can no investigator point out the origin of Medicine - mysterious as the source of the Nile.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Men, Weather, Clothes

  Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1848). “The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.11

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• It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Dying, Population, Speak

  "Fifteen Questions with Nicholas A. Christakis". Interview with Stephanie M. Woo, www.thecrimson.com. October 20, 2011.

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• I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.

  Fred Hollows

  Helping Others, Satisfaction, Legs

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• You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work.

  Christina Romer

  Recovery, Thinking, Financial

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• Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative sense. If a therapy or treatment is anything more than a placebo, properly conducted double-blind trials, statistically analyzed, will eventually bring it through with flying colours. Many candidates for recognition as orthodox medicines fail the test and are summarily dropped. The alternative label should not (though, alas, it does) provide immunity from the same fate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Fate, Flying, Atheism

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• When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Intelligent, Long

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• Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stress, Body, Disease

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on.

  Robin Williams

  Laughter, Sea, People

  Source: www.rd.com

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• I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Nuts, Nerd

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jobs, Son, Thinking

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• The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.

  Moliere

  Powerful, Doctors, Long

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• In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Art, Healing

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.215, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

  Tryon Edwards

  Believe, Poison, May

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• As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.

  Blaise Pascal

  Beauty, Healing, Poetry

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.

  Mae West

  Drinking, Sheep, Littles

  "Fictional character: Cuthbert J. Twillie". "My Little Chickadee", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the health caredebate is a yen to be treated like a whole person, not just an eye, an ear, a nose or a throat. A yen to be human again, on the part of patient and doctor alike.

  Anna Quindlen

  Eye, Hands, Doctors

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• There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.

  Anna Quindlen

  Doctors, Rights, Abortion

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• It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecutionof science as imagination. Find me a people whose early medicine is not mixed up with magic and incantations, and I will find you a people devoid of all scientific ability.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Passion, Successful, Science

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1940). “Philosophical Writings of Peirce”, New York : Dover Publications

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• If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier.

  August Bier

  Would Be, Easier, Professors

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• It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Healing, Doctors, Bed

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