Alice Tisdale Hobart Quotes

Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

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• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

  

  Walter Lang
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• Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• 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
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• Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

  

  Flora Lewis
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• You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
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• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

  

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

  

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

  

  Patricia Cornwell
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• 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
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• 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
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• I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• 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
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• 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
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• I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.

  

  Madi Diaz
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• I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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• The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Music is the elixir of life. It can mimic the heartbeats of our bodies and heal like a magic wand... The resonance it creates in our bodies cannot be replicated by any medicine.

  

  Walter Mikac
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• By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.

  

  Brennan Manning
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• Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music. You've heard the expression, music of the spheres? Well, that's a very literal phrase. In the Gospels, we read, "And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul." That 'breath of life' to me is the music of life and it permeates every fiber of creation.

  

  Michael Jackson
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• One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

  

  Steven Seagal
  • People
  • Justice
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• Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

  

  Alice Tisdale Hobart
  • Theory
  • Medicine
  • Charlatanism