Applied science Quote by Lewis Thomas

Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

— John Cameron

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based…

— Deborah King

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

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

— William Osler

Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful…

— Vernon Coleman

Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the…

— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details…

— Hippocrates

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity…

— Abraham Verghese

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation of knowledge…

— Roger Bacon

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

— John Cameron

What patients want is not rocket science, which is really unfortunate because if it were rocket science, we would be doing it. We are…

— Laura Gilpin

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

— Mikhail Varshavski