Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Topol

Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

Eric Topol

Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.

John Henry Newman

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

Craig Venter

Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply.

That's all they had medicine for. I never realized how many diabetics there are in this country.

That's all they had medicine for, ... I never realized how many diabetics there are in this country.

Dikembe Mutombo

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

Elbert Hubbard

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary

As a standard precaution, (they) are being monitored by the laboratory's Occupational Medicine group.

A lot of people have run out of the medicine they take,

There will be a sense of relief that the medicine has worked.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The best medicine for despair is service.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

Erykah Badu

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

Erin Hunter

Whats the matter?" Jayfeather muttered " Afraid i might give you some medicine?

Catharine Beecher

We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a universal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.

Elton John

I can't talk about - as eloquently as everyone else about a prevention or medicine or, you know, funding, but I can talk about the human element, which is the main part of AIDS, because it comes to the human being and how they are being treated, what medicines they are on and what medicines they are not on.

George Saunders

Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There's a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really:selfishness. But there's also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.

Jerome K. Jerome

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

Jill Johnson

One cardinal rule in behavioral medicine is that unless it is interfered with, your body knows exactly what it is doing and always does the best thing it can do under the circumstances. Consequently, if you are overweight, you may reasonably assume that the extra fat itself is your body's best adjustment to the circumstances you are providing.

Jacqueline Novogratz

So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.

Christopher Hitchens

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Christopher Dodd

Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.

Christine Maggiore

None of what’s happened to me and to my family has shaken what I know to be correct and true about science and medicine, and my experiences.

Chris Gardner

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

Chris Kilham

For a product to really be sustainable, it's really got to deliver the goods for the end user. That drives the whole rest of the equation.

Chris Kilham

Chocolate just may be the healthiest thing you can put in your mouth.

Chris Kilham

We are destroying the world's greatest pharmacy. It is very important that we protect the rainforest in everything that we do.

Chris Kilham

Anything that's popular gets made into a diet. Acai is no more of a diet than the eraser on your No. 2 pencil.

Chris Kilham

I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic Oath. I want to see people use safe, practical medicines.

Chris Kilham

Only a system in which all parts flourish is holistic.

Chris Kilham

You need to understand plant chemistry, be inured to discomfort and awesomely flexible. When something breaks down-the plane, the boat, you just have to roll with it.