Quotes About Frederick Banting

#1. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward

Patricia Sampson

#2. The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.

Frederick Banting

#3. This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

Rodney Dangerfield

#4. Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

Martin Seligman

#5. You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are.

Brett Brown

#6. I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

Thom Yorke

#7. There's only one boss in your life ... and that's you! The person looking back in the mirror at you is the one you have to answer to every day.

Wayne Dyer

#8. Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.

Frederick Grant Banting

#9. No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Frederick Banting

#10. The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive.

George A. Sheehan

#11. It's a simple premise: follow the leads that arise from contact with the work itself, and your technical, emotional and intellectual pathway becomes clear.

David Bayles

#12. If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained.

Frederick Banting

#13. I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.

Frederick Banting

#14. Diabetes mellitus is due to a deficiency of the internal secretion of the pancreas. The main principle of treatment is, therefore, to correct this deficiency.

Frederick Banting