Physician Quotes

Now cheaply bought for thrice their weight in gold.

[Contagion] passes from one thing to another, and is originally caused by infection of the imperceptible particle.

It is time now to introduce my friend Peter Duesberg. Where do I begin? At NIH, Peter is sometimes known as the battling bulldog. He gets his teeth into something and 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years later those teeth are still sunk in it. [...] He began working with retroviruses around 1966. The next major phase of his work involved his classic studies with Petter Vogt; Vogt the biologist, Peter the biochemist. This really led to the first molecular and genetically defined transforming gene, the sarc gene. A great deal of this brilliant and original, the real critical aspects, was carried out by this extraordinarily effective collaboration through the 1970s.

The Patient's Ears remorseless he assails, Murders with Jargon where his Med'cine fails.

'Il est urgent et important de légaliser la transfusion sanguine universelle par adoption immunitaire.'

I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.

Oliver Goldsmith

These testimonies establish once and for all that we are not alone. Technologies related to extraterrestrial phenomena are capable of providing solutions to the global energy crisis, and other environmental and security challenges.

Steven M. Greer

To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.

It is in vain to attempt to measure a quantity which escapes our notice, and which history cannot ascertain; and we might just as well attempt to measure the distance of the stars without a parallax, as to calculate the destruction of the solid land without a measure corresponding to the whole.

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

C. Everett Koop

If we can get cold Coca-Cola and beer to every remote corner of Africa, it should not be impossible to do the same with drugs.

The knowledge which lies behind is our natural help to that which lies before.

Peter Mere Latham

Cosmic love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/ dislike them or not.

The stony rocks are not primeval, but daughters of Time.

Every historic period has had its Cassandras. Our era is the first in which prophecies of doom stem from objective scientific analyses.

In science, all sorts of things present themselves and you watch them; the facts are tested, accepted, rejected, or set aside, and at last experiments are made following some apparently fruitful ideas.

Silas Weir Mitchell

Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye
Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky;
The May-thorn greening in the nook;
The minnows sporting in the brook;
The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers;
The song of birds amid the bowers;
The crystal of the azure seas;
The music of the southern breeze;
And, over all, the blessed sun,
Telling of halcyon days begun.

David Macbeth Moir

It is a blatant, open secret that this attack on the Twin Towers was done by George Bush himself.

To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

Life's race well run,
Life's work well done,
Life's victory won,
Now cometh rest.

Edward Hazen Parker

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

François Rabelais

The feeling of justice thus arises out of two errors, namely, because the punishments inflicted by authorities and educators appear as acts of retribution, and because people believe in the freedom of the will.

I shall be better satisfied if the same can be said of me as was said of the prophet of old, "That I walked in the fear of the Lord, and begat sons and daughters" [Genesis 5:22], than if it were inscribed on my tombstone that I governed the councils or commanded the arms of the whole continent of America.