Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees. — Ryan White Copy Share Image
When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases. — E. Cheraskin Copy Share Image
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
There are a ton of medical dramas out there dealing with life and death. — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.” — Kevin Alan Lee Copy Share Image
They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think. — John Backus Copy Share Image
Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
The United States is one of the few nations on the planet where paid family and medical leave or earned sick time… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience… — Robert Jarvik Copy Share Image
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance. — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an actress. I wanted to go into the medical professional. Acting was not important enough. That was… — June Brown Copy Share Image
Medical attention and emotional support can be difficult to obtain for those in need, yet both are essential to nurturing healthy futures… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
The NCI sent (,)...to review our funding(,)...people connected with the nuclear establishment...It was a pretty much foregone conclusion, that if you send… — Rosalie Bertell Copy Share Image
Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit… — Robert Jarvik Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a… — Phil Crane Copy Share Image
Earlier this week - this is crazy - the country's first marijuana cafe opened up, which not only sells medical marijuana, but… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
“It's the same with the wound in our hearts. We need to give them our attention so that they can heal. Otherwise… — James R. Doty Copy Share Image
Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet,… — Frances M. Young Copy Share Image
Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political… — Margaret M. Lock Copy Share Image
The general uncertainty about the prospects of medical treatment is socially handled by rigid entry requirements. These are designed to reduce the… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
I am sure it is in the medical textbooks, there are many things that cause immune deficiency and you will find therefore… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
You see we're a country that talks about family values. But we haven't passed anything to help family values since the Family… — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
For the past 10 years I have had the interesting experience of observing the development of Parkinson's syndrome on myself. As a… — Fuller Albright Copy Share Image
The field of U.S. cancer care is organized around a medical monopoly that ensures a continuous flow of money to the pharmaceutical… — John Diamond Copy Share Image