Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

The heart knows the immensity it wants to achieve, but it is limited.

If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.

I can't stand [female] characters that are not empowered in a certain way, or at least don't come to a conclusion at the end of the movie where they find empowerment in themselves.

There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Fate is a wheel that turns without our hand

Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.