Age Quote by Paul Farmer

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing…

— Christiaan Barnard

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.

— Marie Curie

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach…

— John Wesley

Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity

— Bill Gates

In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every…

— Ernest Starling

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of…

— Marie Curie

There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.

— Mark Walport

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

After readinf some essay on the nature of human fallibility, I was very aware that we are the recipients of a huge amount of…

— Atul Gawande

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in…

— Anonymous

Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.

— Jamie Hyneman