Medicine Quotes

"Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move."

“I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.”

"There is a growing need for Hindu lady doctors in India, and I volunteer to qualify myself for one."

Anandibai Joshi

"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity."

Hippocrates

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

Voltaire

"Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"

Jonas Salk

"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."

Hippocrates

"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."

William Osler

“Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.”

"Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult."

Hippocrates

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

William Osler

"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison."

Paracelsus

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

Voltaire

"Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try."

Atul Gawande

"We've been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being."

Atul Gawande

"In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life."

Oliver Sacks

"Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it."

"Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses."

Moliere

"I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind - and all the worse for the fishes."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."

Hippocrates

"Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future."

Hippocrates

"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."

William Osler

"The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals."

William Osler

"Being mortal is about the struggle to cope with the constraints of our biology, with the limits set by genes and cells and flesh and bone."

Atul Gawande

"If many remedies are prescribed for an illness, you may be certain that the illness has no cure."

Anton Chekhov