Medical Research Quotes

• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

  Carl Sagan

  Positive, Hope, Educational

  Nobel Award Ceremony Speech by Professor Olga Botner, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2017.

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• Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Science, Thinking, Discovery

  Chairman Habil Khorakiwala's speech of Wockhardt Ltd., economictimes.indiatimes.com. March 2013.

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  Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Writing, Science, Curiosity

  Zora Neale Hurston, Cheryl A. Wall (1997). “Sweat”, p.43, Rutgers University Press

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• Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research

  Ike Skelton

  People, Research, Medical

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• Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

  Peter Lewis Allen

  Library, Research, Renaissance

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  Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

  Wernher von Braun

  Wisdom, Witty, Humorous

  "Work, Society, and Culture". The New York Times, December 16, 1957.

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• Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

  Katherine Dunn

  Everyday, Research, Medical

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• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  Haldan Keffer Hartline

  Research, Benefits, Tangible

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• The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

  Ken Calvert

  Purpose, Cloning, Research

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• I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.

  Francis Collins

  Party, Thinking, Light

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• I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.

  Bernard Baruch

  Father, Believe, Medicine

  "New York Post" Newspaper, May 1, 1959.

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• Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Research And Development, Medical, Reason

  "Health concentrates on achieving more cures for less outlay" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2012.

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• Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Abuse

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• ...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research

  Tony Blair

  Animal, Support, Research

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• Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

  Julie Bishop

  Research, World, Medical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, some would have us ban certain forms of DNA medical research. Restricting medical research has very real human consequences, measured in loss of life and tremendous suffering for patients and their families.

  Michael J. Fox

  Real, Loss, Dna

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• The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research.

  Paul Stamets

  Cancer, Unique, Opportunity

  "Turkey Tail Mushrooms Help Immune System Fight Cancer" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2012.

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• There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic.

  Bill Gates

  Cutting, Thinking, Government

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• When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

  Steve Jurvetson

  Cds, Office, Microsoft

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• Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?

  Dale Bumpers

  Jobs, Military, Years

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• I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Perspective, Research

  "John Cleese And The Key To Comedy". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2014.

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• We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Education, Cutting

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• Coconut oil has been described as the “World's Healthiest Dietary Oil”. There is a mountain of historical evidence and medical research to verify this fact

  Bruce Fife

  Oil, Historical, Mountain

  Bruce Fife (2005). “Eat Fat Look Thin: A Safe and Natural Way to Lose Weight Permanently”, p.12, Piccadilly Books, Ltd.

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• In a nutshell: Medical research has shown that Hypericum is an effective treatment for depression-as successful as prescription anti-depressions in a majority of patients.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Depression, Successful, Majority

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• Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

  Peter Agre

  Commitment, Two, Wife

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