Quotes of: Chekhov Keyword

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

George Wald

Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.

Joseph Murray

In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

Jack W. Szostak

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

Thomas Sydenham

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

Ami Bera

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Erma Bombeck

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Mark Twain

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

William Osler

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Alexis Carrel

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Alexis Carrel

I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.

Andrew Taylor Still

The ways that my dogs can make me - and my visitors - happy constantly amazes me.

Andrew Weil

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

Wilfred Grenfell

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

William Osler

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

William Osler

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

William Osler

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.

Tom Stoppard

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osler

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

Patch Adams

Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.

Kenneth H. Cooper