Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker “The first question an Ayurvedic physician asks is not 'What disease does my patient have?' but 'Who is my patient?' By 'who,' the physician does not mean your name, but how you are constituted.” Mean Names Medicine ♥ 3
CW Catherine Wilson Philosopher “For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there was no metaphysical barrier to doing so - it was just a matter of getting the particles into new arrangements - was encouraging. That was the Baconian programme.” Medicine Noble Substance ♥ 3
Al Lewis Actor “I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.” Years Medicine Radio ♥ 3
CB Chester Brown Cartoonist, Author “That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.” Culture Medicine One Direction ♥ 3
Chris Gardner Entrepreneur “There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.” Language Medicine Arena ♥ 3
Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist “In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.” World Medicine Brutes ♥ 3
CB Claude Bernard Physiologist “The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.” Science Freedom Medicine ♥ 3
CV Conrad Veidt Actor “I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.” Order Stupid Medicine ♥ 3
Cormac McCarthy Novelist, Screenwriter “The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.” Dream Medicine Fields ♥ 3
Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist “When AIDS emergency broke out and was killing millions in Africa, the Global Fund was created so that a level of generosity would show up and buy the medicines to save those lives.” Levels Medicine Generosity ♥ 3
Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist “If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.” People Math Medicine ♥ 3
Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker “Medicine in the future will give everyone the ability to become their own best healer.” Giving Medicine Ability ♥ 3
