"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."

Medical, Future, Language, Moon

35

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."

Exlpore more Medical quotes

"I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices."

Mary Stuart Masterson, American Actress

Medical, Choices

"The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care."

Sue Kelly, American Politician

Medical, Benefits, Care, Deep

"They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think."

John Backus, American Scientist

Medical, School, Thinking, Want

"Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital."

Marlo Thomas, American Actress

Medical, Family, Ability, Care

"Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem."

Alice Hamilton, American Scientist

Medical, Speech

"I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable."

Samuel Wilson, American Public Servant

Medical, Hospitals, Partnership, Physicians

"I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it."

Christiaan Barnard, South African Scientist

Medical, Life

"There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?"

Phyllis Diller, American Comedian

Medical, Men, Cause, Crisis

"No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs."

David Axelrod, American Public Servant

Medical, Drugs, Want

"But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school."

Robert Jay Lifton, American Psychologist

Medical, Work, Psychiatry, School

Explore more quotes by Larry Niven

"In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up."

Inspirational

"I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors."

Love

"I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational."

People

"And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up."

Friendship

"My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names."

Security

"I do not believe they've run out of surprises."

Innovation

"The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it."

War

"As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease."

Family

"We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes."

Mistake

"Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!"

Literature