Considering Quote by Erasmus Darwin

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

— Maurice de Vlaminck

The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode…

— Avicenna

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

— Thomas Jefferson

“A theory is like medicine or government: often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving and, on occasion, lethal. It needs to be used with care,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire.…

— Ben Goldacre

What is impossible to see from the viewpoint of those who believe in cures is that the very symptoms the good doctors have suppressed…

— Philip K. Chapman

Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out…

— Alice Tisdale Hobart

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

— Hosea Ballou

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

Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.

— August Bier

A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should…

— Charaka