That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

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

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

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

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic.

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

President Obama can find time to meet with a YouTube personality who eats cereal out of a bathtub, but not the prime minister of our ally Israel?

What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

Misty May was looking for a partner, I was looking to stay at home, and the beach just came calling.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.