"These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, 'The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow'."

-- Philip Showalter Hench

#Years Quotes #Medicine Quotes #Today Quotes

“Rich people don't have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are ornaments, their â€œworkâ€ is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention. Why didn't I reread my F. Scott Fitzgerald sooner? I might have saved myself some time.”
“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of â€œmadnessâ€. Then: Iâ€™d arrange flowers, all day long, Iâ€™d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: â€œPoor thing, sheâ€™s crazy!â€ (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone elseâ€™s - my madness would not be an escape from â€œrealityâ€.”
“Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is.”
“I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!”
“We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.”
“Anyone can be rich in promises.”
“I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I'm immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it's such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd.”
“Too much information will make your brain choke.”

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