79 Quotes About Physicians


  • Author Samuel Butler
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    A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

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  • Author Charles Caleb Colton
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    Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

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  • Author Francis Collins
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    I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

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  • Author Giacomo Casanova
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    I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

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  • Author Gilbert K. Chesterton
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    To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

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  • Author Norman Cousins
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    The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

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