Analysis Quote by Claude Bernard

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the…

— Paracelsus

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

— Florence Nightingale

Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the…

— Avicenna

But Medicine is a demonstrative Science, and all its processes should be proved by established principles, and be based on positive inductions. That the…

— Samuel L. Jackson

What hope is there for medical scienceto ever become a true sciencewhen the entire structure of medical knowledgeis built around the idea that there…

— John Henry Tilden

Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even…

— Alice Dreger

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life,…

— Albert Claude

Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him…

— Gilles Menage

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library…

— Peter Lewis Allen

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise…

— Atul Gawande

Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions,…

— Lewis Hyde

The field of medicine is one you have to have a lot of dedication to enter.

— Mikhail Varshavski