Famous Quotes & Sayings

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

Peter Agre

The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher... Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate.

Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.

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.

Melissa Etheridge

Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.

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.

Larry Evans

Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine

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

All we can do in medicine is infer.

James Cook

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

Jon Lee Anderson

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

Luc Besson

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

Ellen Pompeo

Medicine is so fascinating.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

Rick Perry

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.

Tabare Vazquez

To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay], has shown the potential for opening new vistas in science and medicine

Stefan Molyneux

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

Ronald Reagan

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Voltaire

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.