August Bier famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card.
-- August Bier

#Cancer #Library #Cards
Medical scientists are nice people, but you should not let them treat you.
-- August Bier

#Nice #Science #People
A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.
-- August Bier

#Mother #Smart #Doctors
Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.
-- August Bier

#Peculiar #Facts #Medical
If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier.
-- August Bier

#Medicine #Would Be #Easier
I never say of an operation that it is without danger.
-- August Bier

#Danger #Operations

I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them?
If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.
Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
It's a scary word, 'cancer.
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.
A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.
Every death is like the burning of a library.
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".
In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisionsâ€”we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.

August Bier famous quotes

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