Michael Specter Quotes

I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

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• Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Dying
  • Try
  • Medicine

• This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Office
  • Medicine
  • Alchemy

• I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Life
  • Different
  • Future

• If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Different
  • Success
  • Story

• I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Science
  • Interesting

• Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
  • High
  • Engineering

• The first step to prescribing the right medicine is to recognize the cause of the illness. And, when it comes to what is ailing the global economy, extreme monetary easing has been more cause than cure. The sooner we recognize that, the stronger and more sustainable the global economic recovery will be.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Step
  • Stronger
  • Recovery

• Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Ambition

• The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Best
  • Medicine

• Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • History
  • Greatest
  • Medicine

• In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Leader
  • Therapy
  • Aids

• I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Change
  • Social
  • Medicine

• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

  

  Ovid
  • Health
  • Medicine
  • Medical

• It's frightening to think with modern medicine and all the technique available to them they can't really help you. In the old days, you know, you were better off because nowadays, they are all specialists. Everyone's becoming better and better at less and less. Eventually someone's going to be superb, at nothing.

  

  Kenneth Williams
  • Medicine
  • Specialists
  • Superb

• Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

  

  Lillian Russell
  • Air
  • Body
  • Blow

• An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Artist

• That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Energy
  • Health
  • Problem

• For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Work
  • High
  • Kind

• Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is really a violence issue - not the same violence we deal with in Boston, where teenagers stab and shoot each other, but the violence of African men who are killing themselves, and killing African women and children, with pathological promiscuity.

  

  Eugene Rivers
  • Children
  • Violence
  • Killing

• Medicine ended up being the best thing I ever did for my writing.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Writing
  • Medicine
  • Best Thing

• The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.

  

  David Malouf
  • Green
  • Common
  • Extraordinary

• I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

  

  Michael Specter
  • Medicine
  • Aids
  • Epidemics