Quotes with medicine

  • There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.
  • We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.
  • For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

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  • Thomas Jefferson A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Luther Burbank Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
    Luther Burbank
    American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Marcel Proust For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Bob Dylan Johnny's in the basement
    Mixing up the medicine
    I'm on the pavement
    Thinking about the government
    The man in the trenchcoat
    Badge out, laid off
    Says he's got a bad cough
    Wants to get it paid off
    Look out kid
    It's somethin' you did
    God knows when
    But you're doin' it again
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Voltaire The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Carl Sagan Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
    The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ben Goldacre Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Siddha Nagarjuna An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
    Siddha Nagarjuna
     
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Shakespeare By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ben Hecht Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Barry Commoner Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • John Frederick Boyes Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.
    John Frederick Boyes
    English scholar of classics (1811 - 1879)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Aldous Huxley God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • James Tyler Kent He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims.
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