Top Medicine Quotes
Medicine Definition
(n.) The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
(n.) Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.
(n.) A philter or love potion.
(n.) A physician.
(v. t.) To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.
The situation with regard to insulin is particularly clear. In many parts of the world diabetic children still die from lack of this hormone. ... [T]hose of us who search for new biological facts and...
Charles Herbert Best
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science, children, pathology, africa, medicine, hormone, treatment, south america, diabetes, discoverer of insulin
Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other. Though it is irregular, it is less boring this way, and besides, neither of the...
Anton Chekhov
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wife, literature, infidelity, doctor, anton chekhov, medicine, mistress, playwright, irregular, less boring
The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall have rendered humanity the best services during the past year. ... One-fifth...
Alfred Nobel
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peace, science, humanity, service, literature, physics, chemistry, discovery, invention, nobel peace prize
What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly speaking, a political one, that is today, it is not concerned with human beings...
W.H. Auden
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freedom, socialism, liberty, rights, responsibility, libertarian, coercion, free markets, statism, psychiatry