Robert Jarvik Quotes

It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.

Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their meaning, and we have not yet reached this point for most of medicine.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

In 1968, I left Cambridge and went to work in New York with Irving M. London, who was then the chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

My father was a doctor.

Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.

It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.

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.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

I am not an expert in medical field.

This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of science experiments; we have over 400 different experiments going on at any one time in different areas, from basic science research to medical technology, that hopefully will benefit more people on Earth.

My parents are always like, 'Camille stop with the medical stuff!'

I have decided to leave Facebook and Oculus to work on curing diseases using some new imaging technologies I've been incubating for awhile.

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

But we need a medical community that's trained and knowledgeable and working on advancement.

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

La me decine a fait quelques petits progre' s dans ses connaissances depuis Molie' re, mais aucun dans son vocabulaire. Medicine has made a few, small advances in knowledge since Molie' r e, but none in its vocabulary.

Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That's a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.

If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .