Abnormality Quote by Georges Canguilhem Download Open image “An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.” — Georges Canguilhem ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abnormality Anomalies Diversity Doe Sickness
...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Anomaly is when you don't fit the expected norm. Like "wait what is this?! It doesn't belong here." Its what the system never planned… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Every generation of humans will produce variants and mutants; it is an inextricable part of our biology. A mutation is only “abnormal” in a… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to… — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance. — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is… — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it… — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is… — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group of well-fed woman. In… — Tom Brewer Copy Share Image
Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
From what has been said, it would appear that the possibility of thyroid deficiency should be considered, and if found, should be treated in… — Broda Otto Barnes Copy Share Image
When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a… — Anthony Heald Copy Share Image
Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior". — Hans Asperger Copy Share Image
What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?” — Bernard Wolfe Copy Share Image
Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of abnormalities of… — Hilde Bruch Copy Share Image
Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain. — Aditi Shankardass Copy Share Image
as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting homeostatic mechanisms… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
