Kelly McCreary Quotes

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.

The Internet gives you access to a lot of material, and it's fun to sit and read. I go to something like Wikipedia and look at different topics... I find the subject fascinating. I like to read about concepts and mathematicians.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

It wasn't that long ago that I was coming up, but it feels almost ancient that you had to go to the library and you had 'World Book Encyclopedias.'

I'm telling you, studying for week to week in the NFL, and memorization, and reflexive recall... you have to drive it into your brain so far.

In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary as well as anyone, but I would write kidney instead of nephric. I insisted on using English.

One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

Many people are intimidated by doctors. ... People also feel stupid when they don't understand what a doctor's talking about the first time around, so they don't ask again. And let's be honest here, people. English is not a doctor's first language.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

Learn how to learn, then learn what to learn

If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.

When you want to learn about something, what is the first thing you do... you go to the internet.