William Henry Danforth Quotes

Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.

Biotech research is incredibly important for health-care innovation.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology.

Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.

I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

My father said, 'You should do 'A Day in the Life of Medicine.' A book about how the human race wants to heal itself in new ways.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

America is home to a vast, dynamic life-science industry.

The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

We need stem-cell research, no question about it. It is absolutely crucial for moving our medical science forward. We are trying to harness an untapped source of energy that can provide cures and possibly even prevent disease and suffering.

I'd like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease.

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called 'Diagnosis: Unknown.'

Medical Device technology is truly interdisciplinary.

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.

I want to cure many diseases and save children's lives.

I'm involved in everything from a nutraceutical company to a pharmaceutical company to a medical device company. My whole world revolves around health, and I feel it's my responsibility, in a way, and I say it this way, and I don't take this lightly.