Medical Writer

🇺🇸Lewis Thomas

Science

1913–1993

"It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage in my life."

🇺🇸Herbert M. Shelton

Politics

1895–1985

"It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated."

🇺🇸Orison Swett Marden

Literature

1848–1924

"We make the world we live in and shape our own environment."

🇺🇸Alfred Stillé

Medicine

1813–1900

"We should be very careful to distinguish between our knowledge of phenomena and our interpretations of them."

🇺🇸Jacob M. Appel

Ethics

b. 1973

"Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer."

🇺🇸Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Literature

1809–1894

"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else, - very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!"

🇺🇸Khaled Hosseini

Literature

b. 1965

"I will follow you to the ends of the world."

🇺🇸Silas Weir Mitchell

Literature

1829–1914

"The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's cheque-books."

🇺🇸Michael Crichton

Literature

1942–2008

"Being on the "Hold" is the technological equivalent of purgatory."

🇺🇸Joel Fuhrman

Medicine

b. 1953

"You can not buy health, you must earn it through healthy living."