30 Quotes by Joseph Murray

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.

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

Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.

It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.

Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.