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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.
I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.
Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.
I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.
Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.
The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.
Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.
If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.
To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.
Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.
Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.
Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.
As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.
I don't do a lot of talking. I do a lot of doing. And really, it says more about a person than how much they talk.
Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.
Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head.
Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.
Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.
We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.
Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.
We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."
I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.
There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.