Medicine

🇺🇸John Locke

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1943–2006

"The life of man in a state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

Anton Chekhov

Literature

Modernism

1860–1904

"The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!"

🇬🇧W. Somerset Maugham

Literature

1874–1965

"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother."

🇺🇸Jonas Salk

Medicine

1914–1995

"Ingels: "The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."

🇦🇹Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Science

1901–1972

"Cybernetics, based upon the principle of feedback or circular causal trains providing mechanisms for goal-seeking and self-controlling behavior."

🇺🇸Francis Collins

Medicine

1950–1921

"... God must also be an incredible physicist ... there is this phenomenal fine-tuning of the universe that makes complexity and, therefore, life possible."

🇺🇸Steven M. Greer

Medicine

b. 1955

"Staged UFO events feature craft with seams and rivets. That’s the way to tell ours from theirs."

🇷🇺Ivan Pavlov

Medicine

1849–1936

"I was, I am and will remain the Russian, the son of the Motherland. Her life first of all I will be interested in. I will live with her interests. With her’s dignity I will strengthen mine."

🇫🇷Alessandro Cagliostro

Medicine

1743–1795

"Heaven forgets, or tolerates—waiting for you to reform"

🇦🇺John Diamond (doctor)

Medicine

1934–2021

"We can accept any and all events in our existence if we believe our mothers love us. For, as I say, she was, and still is, all the world to us."

"Had I known how things would turn out, I wouldn’t care if I got criticised. I would’ve told the whole world."

Cesare Lombroso

Medicine

1835–1909

"Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaningof a passage in his poem. He replied, "God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows."

🇦🇺Colleen McCullough

Medicine

1937–2015

"I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me."

🇬🇧Roger Bannister

Medicine

1929–2018

"We run, not only because we think it is doing us good, but … because it helps us to do other things better."

🇺🇸Emma Caulfield

Medicine

b. 1973

"a question i have for whoever runs these sites--where do you get all these pictures from? i can't even tell where i was when i took most of these!"

"Thank you CNN and let me know when y'all need some of them demons cast out of you. I will gladly oblige. You will feel a lot better. Keep up the good work."

🇫🇷Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1709–1751

"magination is the soul, since it plays all the roles of the soul."

🇺🇸Paul Farmer

Medicine

1959–2022

"I can’t sleep. There’s always somebody not getting treatment. I can’t stand that."

🇺🇸Jay Leiderman

Medicine

1971–2021

"Investigators like to wave around the word ‘gang.’ They use it to strike fear in the heart of the community. It tends to also involve a lot of puffery and allegations that maybe perhaps aren’t 100 percent solid."

🇺🇸John Harvey Kellogg

Medicine

1852–1943

"The ejection from their country of a people whose blood is far superior to their own as indicated by all racial tests"

"Every sinful act is another cord woven into that mighty cable of habit, which binds the spirit to the throne of darkness."

🇺🇸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."

🇺🇸Georges C. Benjamin

Politics

b. 1952

"Syringes are probably less of a problem than vials and stoppers. If I was wanting to pay attention to what can go wrong , it'd be that."

🇬🇧Alex Ferguson

Medicine

b. 1941

"Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way."

"Religion as a whole is but a form of loyalty to the interests of English property."

🇺🇸George Tiller

Medicine

1941–2009

"Why is Killing Abortionists Like George Tiller So Wrong?"

🇷🇺Yevgeniy Chazov

Medicine

1929–2021

"If I am Chernenko's doctor and if I am here, then Chernenko is well because a doctor should be with his patient."

🇺🇸Richard Sherman (American football)

Medicine

b. 1988

"No one should be judged by the actions of others!"

🇺🇸Claudette Colvin

Medicine

1939–2026

"It's my constitutional right to sit here as much as that lady. I paid my fare, it's my constitutional right."

🇺🇸David Frawley

Medicine

b. 1950

"It is not necessary to live in India to be a Hindu. In fact one must live in harmony with the land where one is located to be a true Hindu."