Terence McKenna Quotes

My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.

I really was inspired by the possibility of more directly being involved in the development of drugs myself.

We're finally moving out of the realm of solely discussing biology in regards to a drug-based world.

On the third stage is used for medicine, it is not known to the public.

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

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

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

In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

Medicine is so fascinating.

Anybody that thought the genome was going to directly provide drugs was a fool. Biological networks are not simple, and making drugs to affect them won't be simple.

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.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the early part of the 20th century. Along with that, we've been a leader in medical science and biomedical science and innovation in medicine.

It's O.K. if you've got a smartphone app or a social network, and you go live with it before it's ready; people aren't going to die. But with medicine, it's different.

Biotech research is incredibly important for health-care innovation.

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream.

People moan about drugs being tested on animals. I sort of think it depends innit. If the drug's aspirin and the monkey's got a headache, is it right?

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code

We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.