Quotes by Physicians - Page 132

If your thirst for knowledge is strong enough, you will find the waters to satisfy it.
Debasish Mridha
Creativity is a song of knowledge, imagination, and action.
Debasish Mridha
Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble.
Debasish Mridha
Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.
Rachel Naomi Remen
For linear-thinking companies, the six Ds of exponentials are the six horsemen of the apocalypse—no question about it.
Peter H. Diamandis
[L]ean start-ups are the small furry mammals competing with the large dinosaurs—meaning they're one asteroid strike away from world dominance. Exponential technology is that asteroid.
Peter H. Diamandis
There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance.
Francis S. Collins
Continued observations in clinical psychological practice lead almost inevitably to the conclusion that deeper and more fundamental than sexuality, deeper than the craving for social power, deeper even than the desire for possessions, there is a still more generalized and universal craving in the human make-up. It is the craving for knowledge of the right direction - for orientation.
William Sheldon
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.
Anton Chekhov
People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe
Hippocrates
The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
John Locke
Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses:"1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil.2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil.3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil.4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble.5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.6. Knowledge of Geology: Practical but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.7. Knowledge of Chemistry: Profound.8. Knowledge of Anatomy: Accurate but unsystematic.9. Knowledge of Sensational Literature: Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.10. Plays the violin well.11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.12. Has a good practical knowledge of British law.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
In that context, I find theistic evolution, or BioLogos, to be by far the most scientifically consistent and spiritually satisfying of the alternatives. This position will not go out of style or be disproven by future scientific discoveries. It is intellectually rigorous, it provides answers to many otherwise puzzling questions, and it allows science and faith to fortify each other like two unshakable pillars, holding up a building called Truth.
Francis S. Collins
I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contradictory and I was headed over a cliff, but I found it difficult to imagine that there could be a real conflict between scientific truth and spiritual truth. Truth is truth. Truth cannot disprove truth.
Francis S. Collins
The religion/ politics dichotomy is a false one. It isn't that politics has no role; it's that politics is simply inseparable from the Abrahamic religions. Religion is politics. That was the case during the Barbary confrontation in 1786, and it's the case with the Israel-Palestine conflict now. Throughout history, religion has simply been an excuse looking for a conflict.
Ali A. Rizvi
Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will
Belcampo
To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability…. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.
Francis Collins
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
William James
Disgusted by the abuses to which it led, humanity repressed Christianity by which it had so long been dominated. Repressed, but not eliminated. Herein lies, I believe, the essence of the tragedy of modern times. The modern man lives as if Christianity were a negligible hypothesis with no relation to the concrete realities of the world and society. And yet at the bottom of his heart this man remains impregnated with Christianity, so that he lives in a state of perpetual ambivalence with regard to it.
Paul Tournier
It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.
Taslima Nasrin
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself then art thou lost eternally.
Angelus Silesius
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
Albert Schweitzer
Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will
Alex Comfort
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
William James
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Only write if you can't not.
Samuel Shem
If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in such a condescending, casual tone, but he is a 'writer', and a talentless mediocrity! returned a bad story to Makar recently is know to the whole district and has provoked mockery, long conversations and indignation, while Makar Denisych is already being referred to as old Makarka. tIf someone does not write the way required, they never try to explain what is wrong, but just say:t'That bastard has gone and written another load of rubbish!
Anton Chekhov
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
Arthur Conan Doyle
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.", May 10, 1886)
Anton Chekhov
I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.
Arthur Conan Doyle
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!", May 10, 1886)
Anton Chekhov
I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
William Carlos Williams
It is as if a man should hesitate indefinitely to ask a certain woman to marry him because he was not perfectly sure that she would prove an angel after he brought her home. Would he not cut himself off from that particular angel-possibility as decisively as if he went and married some one else? Scepticism, then, is not avoidance of option; it is option of a certain particular kind of risk. Better risk loss of truth than chance of error,-that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
William James
Belief creates the actual fact.
William James
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
Ben Goldacre
For the beginning is assuredlythe end- since we know nothing, pureand simple, beyondour own complexities.
William Carlos Williams
Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,-- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: "I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely, I am best so!" If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?
William Carlos Williams
The business of love is cruelty which,by our wills, we transform to live together.
William Carlos Williams
beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.
William Carlos Williams
People with yuan fen are destined to like one another;Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart.But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals,They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face
Adeline Yen Mah
so much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens.
William Carlos Williams
If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.
William Carlos Williams
You lethargic, waiting upon me,waiting for the fire and Iattendant upon you, shaken by your beautyShaken by your beauty Shaken.
William Carlos Williams
Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.
William Carlos Williams
It is at the edge of the petal that love waits
William Carlos Williams
We sit and talk,quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language, coursingbeneath the quiet heaven ofyour eyeswhich has no speech
William Carlos Williams
Be knowledgeable but humble. Be wise and simple.
Debasish Mridha
Your outer charm and beauty attract me. Your inner beauty of kindness and a caring heart seduces me.
Debasish Mridha
A new baby is the beginning of a new universe—his own unique universe.
Debasish Mridha
You were born with love and hope. Why do you feel that you have no power to win in life?
Debasish Mridha
We don’t see things. We see reflections of our feelings and perceptions.
Debasish Mridha
Don’t just wish and dream—take action to make it happen.
Debasish Mridha
Age can’t dull the beauty of life that reflects and radiates from within.
Debasish Mridha
Even if you are sad, don’t forget to sing the song of love.
Debasish Mridha
Oh my Valentine! I want to wake up and enjoy every sunrise with you and vanish into your hand at the sunset of my life.
Debasish Mridha
You may not be rich with money, Socrates was not, your life still has tremendous value.
Debasish Mridha