Joseph Murray Quotes

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• 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 he…
• 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…
• It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in…
• Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist - I don't see it. One truth is revealed truth, the…
• And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
• To the patient, any operation is momentous.
• I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.
• Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations.
• You cannot stop the human mind from working.
• The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
• 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 justifies…
• I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the…
• I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.
• Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
• Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.
• Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.
• Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.

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