I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s and keep your eye on helping the patient. It's the best time ever to be… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress. — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations. — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own? — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist - I don't see it. One truth is revealed truth,… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
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