Joseph Murray

Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think…

— Joseph Murray

Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.

— Joseph Murray

If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress.

— Joseph Murray

Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations.

— Joseph Murray

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

— Joseph Murray

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a…

— Joseph Murray

It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must…

— Joseph Murray

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.

— Joseph Murray

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

— Joseph Murray

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one…

— Joseph Murray

Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist - I don't see it. One truth is…

— Joseph Murray

Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.

— Joseph Murray

And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

— Joseph Murray

One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it…

— Joseph Murray

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The…

— Joseph Murray

I've never regretted a swim

— Joseph Murray

It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few…

— Joseph Murray

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

— Joseph Murray

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

— Joseph Murray

I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.

— Joseph Murray

Its the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few…

— Joseph Murray

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

— Joseph Murray

I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this…

— Joseph Murray

Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.

— Joseph Murray