Medicine Quotes

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

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.

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

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

It's like any great medicine that works. It tastes absolutely lousy going down, but ultimately helps and heals you. And that's what Juilliard was. Juilliard is classical training. They don't really want to focus on what you do well - that's what got you into the school. They're training you to do other stuff well, which may not come easily to you.

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