Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

Richard Whately

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

Paracelsus

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Paracelsus

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Medicine has its limitations, Life Force has none.

Ovid

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

Quintilian

Medicine for the dead is too late

Prince Charles

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Plutarch

Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

Mother Teresa

The most important medicine is tender love and care.

Thomas de Quincey

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

Thomas Sydenham

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

Thomas Sydenham

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

Thomas Sowell

In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics.

Thomas Sowell

Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive -- and, if I were, life would not be worth living. Yet those who produce these medications are under constant attack from people who produce nothing.

Thomas R. Insel

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

Vinod Khosla

Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

Robert Trout

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

Vance Havner

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Richard Dawkins

If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn't been tested or it has failed its tests.

Roger Ascham

Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.

Robert Graves

A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

Robert Owen

The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders.

Warren Buffett

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Vladimir Lenin

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

Salman Rushdie

What can't be cured must be endured.

W. H. Auden

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

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.

Jeff Goodby

Advertising shouldn't be like medicine. It should be like candy.

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.