Medical Science Quotes

• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  Voltaire

  Art, Get Well Soon, Health

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• Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

  William Osler

  Art, Science, Medicine

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.46, ACP Press

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• Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

  Thomas Szasz

  Strong, Mistake, Men

  The Second Sin "Science and Scientism" (1973)

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• We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States.

  Sanjay Gupta

  Weed, Marijuana, Years

  "Why I changed my mind on weed" By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2013.

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• Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

  Michael J. Fox

  Cancer, Health, Science

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• We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

  Atul Gawande

  Pain, Medicine, Intuition

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science”, p.7, Profile Books

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• Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

  Anton Chekhov

  Tired, Science, Night

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, 11 Sept. 1888

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• To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, War, Get Well Soon

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Confidence, Optimism, Mind

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• The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Fundamentals, Disease, Causation

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• Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

  Aldous Huxley

  Medicine, Healthy, Progress

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• When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

  Anton Chekhov

  Pain, Mean, Modern Life

  'The Cherry Orchard' (1904) act 2

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• When you have really solid biology and medical science at the core of an issue, it makes it much easier to identify what potential solutions may be.

  James Redford

  Issues, May, Biology

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

  Aldous Huxley

  Medicine, Progress, Remarkable

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• I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

  Richard Lamm

  Thinking, People, Quality

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• I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Real, Doctors, Trying

  "Meet Patrick Soon-Shiong, The LA Billionaire Reinventing Your Health Care". Interview with Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2013.

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• The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

  Edward Bach

  Strong, Real, Causes

  Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.9, McGraw Hill Professional

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• We need stem-cell research, no question about it. It is absolutely crucial for moving our medical science forward. We are trying to harness an untapped source of energy that can provide cures and possibly even prevent disease and suffering.

  Richard Carmona

  Moving, Cells, Suffering

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• In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.

  Francois Magendie

  Simple, Play, Physicians

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• The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.

  Denton Cooley

  Real, Simple, Men

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but the true sanctuary of medical science is a laboratory; only there can he seek explanations of life in the normal and pathological states by means of experimental analysis.

  Claude Bernard

  Life, Mean, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning medical experiments that would normally take years can be digitally run taking only hours.

  Benjamin Stone

  Running, Powerful, Years

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

  Jasper Fforde

  Art, Hate, Passion

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

  Robert Jarvik

  Practice, Careers, Medicine

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• Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

  Vishnudevananda Saraswati

  Yoga, Roots, Disease

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