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Let's all be more humble about the evidence behind medical advice but also respect the challenges to providing accessible lifestyle guidance.
My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.
Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.
Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up.
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
I became really interested in the community health care movement and community health centers, which Boston was sort of a leading center for.
I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.
This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.
Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.
About a quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. One cause may be another potential carcinogen: fumes from frying.
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this.
The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child.
The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.
I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are.
To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.
What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.
We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of diplomacy and international law.
I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines.
Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.
I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.
Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.
My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.
You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.
We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery.
I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.
If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.