Robert J. Shiller Quotes

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

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.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

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.

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows.

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.

In 1973, I left the Rockefeller University to join the Yale University Medical School. The main reason for the move was my belief that the time had come for fruitful interactions between the new discipline of Cell Biology and the traditional fields of interest of medical schools, namely Pathology and Clinical Medicine.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.

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

I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone.

Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies.

It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.