Physician Writer

🇩🇪Friedrich Schiller

Literature

Sturm und Drang

1895–1990

"What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return."

🇬🇧W. Somerset Maugham

Literature

1874–1965

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Literature

1859–1930

"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - His Life, All His Works, And More"

🇺🇸Orison Swett Marden

Literature

1848–1924

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

🇬🇧Oliver Sacks

Science

1933–2015

"In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life."

🇨🇦John McCrae

Literature

1872–1918

"John McCrae in Flanders Fields — Historical Essay, illustrated with many photographs of John McCrae"

🇬🇧James Herriot

Medicine

1916–1995

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."

Angelus Silesius

Religion

1624–1677

"I know God couldn't live a moment without me; if I should disappear, He would die, destitute"

🇺🇸William Carlos Williams

poetry

Modernism

1883–1963

"Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels."

Oliver Goldsmith

Literature

1728–1774

"I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon."

🇺🇸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!"

🇩🇪Josef Mengele

Medicine

1911–1979

"There can't be two smart peoples in the world. We're going to win the war, so only the Aryan race will stand."

Tobias Smollett

Literature

1721–1771

"Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age."

🇬🇧David Livingstone

Medicine

1813–1873

"The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen."

🇬🇧A. J. Cronin

Medicine

Scottish Renaissance

1896–1981

"Even if my country remains at war with yours . . . remember ... I am not your enemy."

🇩🇪Paracelsus

Philosophy

1493–1541

"The art of medicine has its roots in the heart. If your heart is false, then also the doctor in you is false. If it is fair, then also the doctor is fair."

🇬🇧Erasmus Darwin

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1731–1802

"a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian."

🇬🇧Dannie Abse

Medicine

1923–2014

"And silence matched the silence under snow."

🇫🇷Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Literature

Expressionism

1894–1961

": Only mad men and cowards refuse to go to the war, when their homeland is in danger! - : So, hurrah for the mad men and the cowards! ―"

🇺🇸Khaled Hosseini

Literature

b. 1965

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

🇪🇬Nawal El Saadawi

Literature

1931–2021

"We're not living in three worlds, we're living in one."

🇺🇸Michael Crichton

Literature

1942–2008

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

Galen

Medicine

"Galen, Arthur John Brock, Galen On the Natural Faculties. W. Heinemann, 1916; at archive.org."

🇫🇷Nostradamus

Literature

1503–1566

"Snopes: False claims of Nostradamus predicting the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001"

🇸🇪Axel Munthe

Medicine

1857–1949

"The Story of San Michele at Google Books"

🇦🇺Colleen McCullough

Medicine

1937–2015

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