Medicine famous quotes
04-23-2025
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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 -
Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last word because it is quicker to see through self-deception than the mind. We may ignore or deride the messages of the body, but its rebellion demands to be heeded because its language is the authentic expression of our true selves and of the strength of our vitality.
-- Alice Miller -
Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
-- Alice Sebold -
Food, medicine, beauty, and love. When we talk about them in English, they seem so different from each other. But looking at them from another perspective, they are not so different. Good food is a part of good health. Good health leads to good looks. Love surrounds it all. When we feed or heal, we share love. When we love and are loved, we are beautiful.
-- Alma Hogan Snell -
A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!
-- Alton Brown -
Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.
-- Alva Noe -
Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.
-- Amanda Schull -
Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation.
-- Amit Ray -
When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly.
-- Amy Sedaris -
Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
-- Andre Maurois -
It is not a medicine. You don't know what's in it. If there were compelling scientific and medical data supporting marijuana's medical benefits that would be one thing. But the data is not there.
-- Andrea Barthwell -
By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.
-- Andrea Barthwell -
The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.
-- Andreas Vesalius -
Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.
-- Andrew Lam -
Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless ***** who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.
-- Andy Rooney -
There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.
-- Ann Romney -
If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.
-- Anne Hull -
Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch.
-- Anne Taintor -
Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.
-- Annie Lennox -
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.
-- Archie Fire Lame Deer -
Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken?
-- Aristotle -
'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.
-- Arthur Middleton -
In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls.
-- Arthur Middleton -
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.
-- Atul Gawande -
Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best technologies, the best specialists, but we don't think too much about how it all comes together.
-- Atul Gawande -
At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their own arbitrary rhythm. The notion that human caring, the effort to do better for people, might make a difference can seem hopelessly naive. But it isn't.
-- Atul Gawande -
I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.
-- Atul Gawande -
The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we in fact covet in our way, is the alterable moment-the fragile but crystalline opportunity for one's know-how, ability, or just gut instinct to change the course of another's life for the better.
-- Atul Gawande -
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 -
Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.
-- Aubrey McClendon -
Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete knowledge of a thing can only be obtained by elucidating its causes and antecedents, provided, of course, such causes exist. In medicine it is, therefore, necessary that causes of both health and disease should be determined.
-- Avicenna -
The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.
-- Avicenna -
Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.
-- Avicenna -
Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?
-- B. J. Palmer -
Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.
-- B. J. Palmer -
Medicine is about disease and what makes people die. Chiropractic is about life and what makes people live.
-- B. J. Palmer -
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
[Economists' advice] is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won't work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.
-- Barbara Bergmann -
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents ...
-- Barbara Holland -
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
-- Barry Commoner -
Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I's sex life.
-- Bella Bathurst -
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 -
There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.
-- Ben Goldacre -
Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers.
-- Benjamin -
The best of all medicines is resting and fasting
-- Benjamin Franklin -
A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
-- Benjamin Rush -
Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils of medicine from supposed facts, and ascribe all the remedies which have been uniformly and extensively useful, to such theories as are true. Facts are combined and rendered useful only by means of theories, and the more disposed men are to reason, the more minute and extensive they become in their observations
-- Benjamin Rush -
I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine!
-- Bernard Jensen -
Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.
-- Bernard Lown -
Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.
-- Bernard Marcus -
Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I've worked with Morris Animal Foundation for more than 40 years now, and I'm so proud of all they've done to advance veterinary medicine for animals worldwide.
-- Betty White -
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 -
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
-- Bill James -
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.
-- Bill Nye -
I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.
-- Billy Graham -
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 -
There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief.
-- Bob Barr
