Medicine Is Not A Science Quotes

#1. Medicine is not a science; physicians must act. They must do the best they can, even when it is inadequate, even when they don't know all there is to know, even when there is nothing to do. So must we all.

Kathryn Montgomery

#2. Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.

Emmet Densmore

#3. Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Paracelsus

#4. Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

Paracelsus

#5. In the field of letters, as apart from medicine and science, professors do not lead but follow. Their wisdom is always that of a post-mortem. They

Stephen Leacock

#6. The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.

H.L. Mencken

#7. It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

Eliot Spitzer

#8. Technological innovations do not define a science; they merely prove that medicine is scientific - i.e.,

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#9. A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

Abraham Flexner

#10. Certainly the primary imperative of a physician is to be skilled in medical science, but if he or she does not probe a patient's soul, then the doctor's care is given without caring, and part of the sacred mission of healing is missing.

Jerome Groopman

#11. Every medicine is vain.

Aeschylus

#12. Medicine is aptly described as an art, not a science. To this end, four different doctors may have up to four different diagnoses or prescriptions.

Andrew Saul

#13. The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.

S. Jay Olshansky

#14. In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.

Hippocrates

#15. There is a phrase used commonly in medicine: "true, true, and unrelated." It is meant to remind physicians not to confuse coincidence with cause. That kind of skepticism, while a fundamental tenet of scientific research, is less easily understood by laymen.

Michael Specter

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

Kenneth Oppel

#17. I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level.

Craig Venter

#18. The distinction between government, industry, science and medicine have become blurred.

T. Colin Campbell

#19. Contemporary medical technology is not an advancement in medicine- it indicates the failure of Caucasian medical science and is a sign of ignorance. Technology cannot replace the human ability to diagnose disease by looking, touching and smelling to perform treatments without drugs.

Llaila Afrika

#20. The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.

Arthur Kornberg

#21. Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

Carla H. Krueger