Tom Waits Quotes

Medicine is so fascinating.

The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.

I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature.

One learns the states of the human body with respect to what is healthy and what deviates from it, for the purpose of preserving health when it already exists and restoring it when it has been lost.

I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.

Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.

The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based on the supposition that sufficient study and experimentation would elucidate not only the origins of disease, but its treatment as well.

No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

I wasn't a kid who wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a doctor. I was kind of morbid. I was really into the body and how it could go wrong. I wanted to dig up bodies from the graveyard.

Read enough books on the body, and you'll find that reality is much stranger than any sci-fi series.

I took pre-med courses in college.

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

Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.

I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.

I'm actually pretty scientifically interested. I have a lot of friends who are doctors, so the idea of the virus and the synapses in the brain and how the nervous system works was actually all pretty familiar to me.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.