"We used to think that our fate was in our stars. Now we know that,
in large measure, our fate is in our genes."
by James D.Watson, Nobel Laureate from Time, Special Issue Winter
1997-98 [Personal addition : let's hope we don't interpret our genes as
we interpret our stars !]
"You can't study the genome for very long before you start feeling that
you're just a transient vehicle for making more DNA."
by Robert Waterson, from The Washington Post "But not just any vehicle. One with the curiosity, ingenuity and
wherewithal to explore and decipher its own genetic code." from Nature Reviews Genetics, March 2001
"As mere mortals we're simply not meant to identify and isolate what
happens when human and other cells pass from life to death."
"Something is alive insofar as it knows it will die. One thing that
distinguishes humans from things and artifacts is that humans are aware
of the certainty of their own deaths."
"Even if you believe in Big Bang and evolution, who put there the energy
?"
"Humankind cannot live without nature, but nature can live without humankind"
"The madman forces doors, the wise follow”
Persian proverb
Science
"The first step toward knowledge is to know we are ignorant..."
by Richard Cecil
"Look at the things everybody sees, but reason in a different way."
by A.Szent Gyorgyi, Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1938)
"Eliminate all the other factors, and the one which remains must be
the truth."
"Would you think me impertinent if I were to put your theories to
a more severe test?" by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in Arthur Conan Doyle's The
Sign of the Four.
" You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its
dangerous magic."
by Elias Canetti, Auto da Fè
"When science has shown the contingency of human existence, we need
as aim the conquest of knowledge itself."
from preface to Le Hazard et la nécessité, by
Jacques Monod, 1970.
"To be in doubt about himself is the first sign of intelligence."
by Ugo Ojetti
"We don't discover truth, we create it."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Men's land
"Chance favours only the prepared mind"
by Louis Pasteur
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal from many is
research
Keep some whisky in your lab: most problems are soluble in alcohol
Publish now - think later
The collective IQ of a committee is obtained by dividing the IQ of the
least endowed member by the total count of them
The 3 most common things in Universe (in this order): stupidity, frustration,
hydrogen
The less you know, the more opinions you have
BIG BANG: ... and God said "pkunzip universe.zip"
Medicine
"Medicine place is into the river of life, not on its banks."
by René Sand
"Medical statistics are just like a bikini : what they say is interesting,
but what they hide is vital."
Anonymous
"All medicine discoveries may be summarize in the short formula : water,
if moderately drunk, isn't harmful."
by Mark Twain
[Personal addition : let's hope you're drinking clean water !]
"Stimulate your phagocytes : medicines are illusions."
by George Bernard Shaw
"A medicine is something that when injected into a guinea-pig produces
a scientific article."
in "The Wit of Medicine"
"Physicians' problem is not they don't know enough, but they don't look
enough."
by Dominic J. Corrigan
"The homeopathic physician is the humourist of the medical profession."
by Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
[Personal addition : sometimes humour is better than real medicine
!]
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