Quotes about Medicine
The Stone is one, the Medicine is one, to which we add nothing, only in the preparation removing superfluities.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found the genes for cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease and neurofibromatosis.
— Francis Collins
I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
— Francis Collins
It was a wicked game. "Homer," says Snowman, making his way through the dripping-wet vegetation. "The Divine Comedy. Greek statuary. Aqueducts. Paradise Lost. Mozart's music. Shakespeare, complete works. The Brontës. Tolstoy. The Pearl Mosque. Chartres Cathedral. Bach. Rembrandt. Verdi. Joyce. Penicillin. Keats. Turner. Heart transplants. Polio vaccine. Berlioz. Baudelaire. Bartok. Yeats. Woolf.
— Margaret Atwood
After all, a person has only two hands, and these days there're too many patients and too few doctors.
— Anne Frank
Forgiveness, I know now, is maturity. Mercy is maturity. It's slow release, like certain medicines. It's incremental, like traveling along the spiral chambers of a nautilus.
— Anne Lamott
If you took organic chemistry in college, you've experienced the Dip. Academia doesn't want too many unmotivated people to attempt medical school, so they set up a screen. Organic chemistry is the killer class, the screen that separates the doctors from the psychologists. If you can't handle organic chemistry, well, then, you can't go to med school.
— Seth Godin
The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!
— Joyce Meyer
At all events, it is certain that if any medicinal man had come to Middlemarch with the reputation of having very definite religious views, of being given to prayer, and of otherwise showing an active piety, there would have been a general presumption against his medical skill.
— George Eliot
I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.
— Alice Walker
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. —PROVERBS 17:22
— Sarah Young