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“A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
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“Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.”
Source : 'The Garden of Kama' (1901) 'Less than the Dust'
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“Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.”
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“Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.”
Source : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai (1987). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.279, World Scientific
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“In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.”
Source : Ernst Hans Gombrich, Didier Eribon (1993). “Looking for answers: conversations on art and science”, Harry N Abrams Inc
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“Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.”
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“Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.”
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“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”
Source : Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010. 
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“The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.”
Source : 1973 Habeas Corpus.
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“Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.”
