Careful Quote by Aristotle

Nature can do more than physicians

— Oliver Cromwell

Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.

— Henry George Bohn

“If doctors practiced medicine the way many companies practice management, there would be far more sick and dead patients, and many more doctors would…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two…

— Plato

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

— Thomas Fuller

For the public ever to break command science it must first understand the basis of its enormous powers…Traditionally, the power of medical sciences has…

— Peter Duesberg

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

— Margaret Heffernan

The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that…

— Robert Owen

Until the 20th century, medicine was more like politics than physics. Its forecasts were often bogus and its record grim. In the 1920s, statisticians…

— Dominic Cummings

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having…

— Francis Bacon

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs…

— Paracelsus

The reason doctors are so dangerous is that they believe in what they are doing.

— Robert S. Mendelsohn