Carl Linnaeus Quotes

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

Carl Linnaeus

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• 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

• I'm terribly, horribly shy.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Shy
  • Terribly
  • Horribly

• I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Process
  • Plan
  • Medicine

• To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Medicine

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Today
  • Responsibility
  • Suffering

• And if you like socialized medicine, you will love this government bureaucracy under [then-Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee] Al Gore that will actually cost seniors who get $500 a year in prescription drugs right now - it will end up costing seniors more money and take away control from those seniors.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Up
  • Money
  • Control

• It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Time
  • Good
  • Science

• In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Power

• 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

• Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Photograph

• Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Treachery
  • Brutes
  • Brutus

• 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 love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• To live by medicine is to live horribly.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Medicine
  • Horribly