Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. Taylor

That's where the science of medicine is going.

Jaron Lanier

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

Jay Griffiths

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

Moliere

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Ivan Illich

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

Ida Tarbell

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

Harold E. Varmus

I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

H. L. Mencken

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.

George Herbert

Ready mony is a ready Medicine.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

Horace Mann

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

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.

Irving Langmuir

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

Milan Kundera

His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner desire. Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity. Every Frenchman is different. But all the actors the world over are similar.

Jose Rizal

Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.

Ellen Pompeo

Medicine is so fascinating.

John Knowles

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot

Napoleon Bonaparte

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Oliver Sacks

If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.

Oliver Sacks

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

Oliver Sacks

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

O. Henry

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

Teri Garr

My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.

Malcolm Rogers

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

Malcolm X

If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine

Eric Topol

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

Eric Topol

Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.

Shaun Alexander

Medicine's good for some people. Not for me.

Sherman Alexie

The ordinary can be like medicine.