The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit. — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method. — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind. — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient. — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks. — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided,… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
We must convince each generation that they are but transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care. — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
