#medicine

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#bush #bush administration #disturbing #find #greatly

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#during #engineering #felt #get #glamorous

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#both #clinic #come #desire #disciplined

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. ↗

— Robert Trout

#although #arrived #before #british #chinese

Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#afford #become #healthy #important #increasingly

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. ↗

— William Osler

#educate #first #masses #medicine #physician

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#poverty #rights #science #science

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori ↗

— Kenneth Oppel

#science

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#morality #philosophy #science

If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#medicine #scope-of-government #wisdom #food