Quotes and Sayings About Medicine
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
-- Aaron Koblin -
Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.
-- Abdul Kalam -
I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.
-- Abdullah Ibrahim -
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.
-- Abraham Verghese -
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
-- Abraham Verghese -
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
-- Abraham Verghese -
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
-- Abraham Verghese -
It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.
-- Abram Hoffer -
No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.
-- Aelred of Rievaulx -
Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
-- Aeschylus -
In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
-- Alain Badiou -
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.
-- Alan Bennett -
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
-- Alastair Campbell -
Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
-- Albert Einstein -
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.
-- Albert Murray -
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
-- Albert Pike -
With One Spirit Medicine , you will discover how to dance between the visible, physical world of the senses and everyday tasks, and the invisible world of Spirit. You will be like the graceful jaguar, the balancing force of the rain forest who serves as an intermediary between the seen and unseen worlds as it journeys beyond death into eternity.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
-- Aldous Huxley -
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
-- Aldous Huxley -
If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.
-- Alexander Fleming -
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
-- Alexander Pope -
A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.
-- Alexandra Ivy -
Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.
-- Alfred Kazin -
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
-- Alfred Kazin -
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense
-- Alfred Tarski -
The word of God is the medicine of the heart.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib
