Any systematic body of knowledge is science. The more systematic the body of knowledge is the more scientific it is.

All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.

A massive stroke may kill you instantly, while a series of mini-strokes may disable and kill you over several years.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.

There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.

I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school.

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking.

The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says.

Right now we have a bipartisan debate commission, when most Americans are not members of the bipartisan establishment.

I don't support ObamaCare and see it as a step backward that entrenches the power of the private health care industry.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.

Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.

It's too easy to get swept up; doing things because the opportunities are there, not because we're burning to do them.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

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