Pathology Quotes

When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

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.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

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

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

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.

That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

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

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

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.

The gods have become our diseases.

When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital in London, and I begged them to let me see the post mortems. So the first time I saw a naked male was at 15, when I saw an 89 year old man who had died of a brain hemorrhage.

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.

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

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.