These medical research quotes will inspire you. Medical research involves research in a wide range of fields, such as biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and toxicology with the goal of developing new medicines or medical procedures or improving the application of those already available.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging medical research quotes, medical research sayings, and medical research proverbs.
Best Medical Research Quotes
- “Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research” ~ Ike Skelton
- “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” ~ Carl Sagan
- “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston
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“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.” ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
- “Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.” ~ Peter Lewis Allen
- “Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.” ~ Katherine Dunn
- “Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.” ~ Haldan Keffer Hartline
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“Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” ~ Wernher von Braun
- “The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.” ~ Ken Calvert
- “I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.” ~ Francis Collins
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“Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development – and with good reason.” ~ Geoff Mulgan
- “…we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research” ~ Tony Blair
- “Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.” ~ Julie Bishop
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“The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research.” ~ Paul Stamets
- “It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, some would have us ban certain forms of DNA medical research. Restricting medical research has very real human consequences, measured in loss of life and tremendous suffering for patients and their families.” ~ Michael J. Fox
- “I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There’s medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It’s all about sense and perspective.” ~ John Cleese
- “There’s a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How ’bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn’t cut that. And pretty soon you’ve proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic.” ~ Bill Gates
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“When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.” ~ Steve Jurvetson
- “Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?” ~ Dale Bumpers
- “We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.” ~ Barack Obama
- “Coconut oil has been described as the “World’s Healthiest Dietary Oil”. There is a mountain of historical evidence and medical research to verify this fact” ~ Bruce Fife
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“In a nutshell: Medical research has shown that Hypericum is an effective treatment for depression-as successful as prescription anti-depressions in a majority of patients.” ~ Harold H. Bloomfield
- “Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.” ~ Peter Agre
- “In the four decades of philanthropy that have paralleled my business career, I’ve found that the same principles apply whether you’re providing access to capital to grow a business, creating a new paradigm for medical research, or pioneering innovative approaches to education: Empower the most talented people in each field and encourage them to pursue their passions.” ~ Michael Milken
- “The benefits of medical research are real – but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise heart transplants, but do little for the 15 million who die annually of malnutrition and related diseases. Our cleverness has grown prodigiously – but not our wisdom.” ~ Martin Ryle
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“The Public provides freedom…Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.” ~ George Lakoff
- “If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.” ~ Ben Goldacre
- “To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.” ~ Eli Broad
- “Medical research is “immoral even it it’s essential.”” ~ Ingrid Newkirk
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“Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I’m going to live forever.” ~ Linus Torvalds
- “To cure ALS medically is not economical. The realities are that it’s difficult to find funding for research for a medical cure. I believe in developing technology as opposed to medical research. Technology can be economical.” ~ Steve Gleason
- “I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience.” ~ Eva Vertes
- “Medical research has shown that when an 8 week old human foetus is pricked in the palm of his hand by a needle, he opens his mouth and pulls his hand away. There is also an increase in heart rate as a result. This shows that an 8 week old foetus can feel pain” ~ Mark Volman
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“The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.” ~ Tony Abbott
- “Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and Id love to bring those interests to a show like E.R. or The West Wing, or a movie like Jurassic Park.” ~ Morgan Fairchild
- “Many good Christians are confused about complex social issues of our day, such as doctor-assisted death or medical research which uses stem cells from human embryos. They wonder, ‘Why shouldn’t science use discarded fetuses for research?’ And if someone finds his medical condition intolerable and hopeless, ‘why shouldn’t he have the legal right to end his life?’ Although the Bible does not address these issues in particular, it does provide guiding insights.” ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
- “The use of animals in medical research remains absolutely essential.” ~ John Savill
- “Maybe, through the stories I share about my life and others and the medical research that has been dedicated to the world of positive psychology, they’ll relate to the power of a positive perspective and change the world one person at a time. Pipe dream, of course, but I love the thought of being given the chance to inspire!” ~ Trista Sutter