Sickness Quotes (5)
Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
Attributed.
If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.
'Some Psychological Concepts and Issues. A Discussion between Konrad Lorenz and Richard I Evans'. In Richard I. Evans, Konrad Lorenz: The Man and his Ideas (1975), 60.
See also: | Crustacean (2) | Difference (25) | Health (61) | Insect (19) | Learning (43) | Man (112) | Pidgeon (2) | Rat (8) | Study (33) | Vertebrate (7)
The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.
In North Manchurian Plague Prevention Service Reports (1925-1926) (1926), 292, 305.
The wise man should study the acquisition of science and riches as if he were not subject to sickness and death; but to the duties of religion he should attend as if death had seized him by the hair.
In Charles Wilkins (trans.) Fables and Proverbs from the Sanskrit: being the Hitopadesa (1885), 18.
See also: | Acquisition (2) | Death (91) | Death (91) | Duty (7) | Religion (68) | Riches (2) | Study (33) | Subject (11) | Wisdom (43)
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
In Thomas Wallace Knox, Life and Work of Henry Ward Beecher: An Authentic, Impartial and Complete (1887), 274.
