Samuel Butler Quotes

The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based on the supposition that sufficient study and experimentation would elucidate not only the origins of disease, but its treatment as well.

I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.

I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the personality of House as one could imagine. He was polite and easygoing, and would have gone to great lengths to make his patients feel attended to and heard and sympathized with.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring to bear the maximum amount of technology on any given patient. And this makes them dangerous.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

The practice of physic [Medicine] is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.

To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

Any candidate who claims his religion has no influence on his decisions is either a dishonest politician or a shallow follower of his faith.

I think for those of us who think that our morality is something that needs to be in touch with our religious faith personally, then it's really important to explain that no one party has a monopoly on faith.

Religions are maintained by people. People who can't get laid, because sex is the first great earthly pleasure. But if you can't get that, power is a pretty good second one. And that's what religion gives to people. Power. Power is sex for people who can't get or don't want or aren't any good at sex itself.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.

Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.

To restore morality we must first recognize the source from which all morality springs. From our earliest history in 1776 when we were declared to be the United States of America, our forefathers recognized the sovereignty of God.

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.