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Hippocrates
460 BC - 357 BC
Nationality: Greek
Category: Scientist
Subcategory: Greek Scientist

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

   

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

   

Life is short, the art long.

   

Many admire, few know.

   

The art is long, life is short.

   

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

   

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

   

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

   

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

   

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

   

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

   

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

   

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

   

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

   

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

   

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

   

Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

   

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

   

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

   

Walking is man's best medicine.

   

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