Quotes by Pathologists

I'm not a romantic.
Jack Kevorkian
That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith hardly ever.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.
Thomas Hodgkin
Disease may be defined as 'A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment.
William Thomas Councilman
As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.
Howard Florey
The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work that precedes the appearance of the new truth, like the pain of childbirth. It is true to say that nothing for the scientific scholar is comparable to the things that he has discovered. Indeed, it would be difficult to find an investigator willing to exchange the paternity of a scientific conquest for all the gold on earth. And if there are some who look to science as a way of acquiring gold instead of applause from the learned, and the personal satisfaction associated with the very act of discovery, they have chosen the wrong profession.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos.
Jack Kevorkian
Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos.
Jack Kevorkian
Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
Jack Kevorkian