Semmelweis Quotes

#1. Semmelweis reflex. They

Peter Watts

#2. Semmelweis reflex: The tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms

Ignaz Semmelweis

#3. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

Laura Mullen

#4. I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!

Leighton Meester

#5. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our way through life is often determined by whether our parents, teachers, mentors and friends exposed us to good examples and morally inspiring ideas.

Michael Josephson

#7. Our health and well-being is something that we can almost control, to a certain extent. We can choose to eat healthy, we can choose to think positively, and we can choose to have good posture. All this stuff makes a difference, and the way that you look and feel, and your confidence.

Bethany Hamilton

#8. I'm living in New York, getting paid to do what I love. I get to boss people around, wear a fancy costume, dance with beautiful mermaids, and meet my fans every night at the stage door. I'm loving it.

Drew Seeley

#9. I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.

Martha Stewart

#10. There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#11. Pain sounded the same, all ages and races.

Skye Warren

#12. All I have to say is: Jessica Simpson is the most beautiful woman on the planet!

Jessica Simpson

#13. American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

Cornel West