Medicine Quotes — Page 28

Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

“There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.”

Hands Philosophy Medicine

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.”

Art Religion Medicine

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RD

Rich Donnelly

Baseball Coach

“The LA Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball.”

Running Basketball

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Sophocles

Playwright, Philosopher

“Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.”

Giving Sleep

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Scarlett Johansson

Actress

“I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine.”

Gone Medicine

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.”

Medicine Patient Get Well

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.”

Country Education Medicine

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Tom Waits

Singer-songwriter, Actor

“All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music.”

Play Hands Medicine

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Simone de Beauvoir

Philosopher, Writer

“We can reorient science - for example, a kind of medicine much more directed toward the enormous number of women's health problems which are neglected now. But the original givens of this science are the same for men and for women. Women simply have to steal the instrument; they don't have to break it, or try, a priori, to make of it something totally different. Steal it and use it for their own good.”

Men Numbers Medicine

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Sri Chinmoy

Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician

“Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.”

Compassion Doctors Medicine

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Robert Winston

Physicist and Science Communicator

“Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.”

Thinking Medicine Taught

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”

Cancer Medicine Tuberculosis

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