A Quote by Katherine Dunn

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Katherine Dunn

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Death Medical Everyday Intimate Medical Research Occurrence Penicillin Prior Research

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Katherine Dunn
American - Novelist
October 24, 1945 - May 11, 2016

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

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

Alexander Fleming

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

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

Hard as it is to imagine, there's a move afoot in Congress to take away the public's free online access to tax-funded medical research findings. That would be bad for medical discovery, bad for patients looking for the latest research results, and another rip-off of the American taxpayer.

Richard J. Roberts

To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

Mike Pence

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

MDMA is penicillin for the soul; you don't give up on penicillin when you see what it can do.

Ann Shulgin

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

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

They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.

Heather Brewer

The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life.

David Copperfield

In 1962, Popjak and I left the service of the Medical Research Council and became co-directors of the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology set up by Shell Research Ltd.