A Quote by Richard Conniff

Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists.

Richard Conniff

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Richard Conniff
American - Writer
Born: March 1, 1951

I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time.

Greg Graffin

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

James Ellroy

So the problem in the West is that, especially in places like the USA, a person will obtain this much knowledge and immediately think that they have a large amount of knowledge. And then start to act on the basis of what they think, they posses. Instead of having this much knowledge and realizing that in fact this is only this much knowledge and the amount of where you can go there is where you came is much bigger than where you've already gotten.

Robert Svoboda

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Sterling K. Brown

We came from the sea originally, now we're going back in it. Don't go in it, unless you're in a boat.

Karl Pilkington

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Tariq Ali

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Kenneth E. Boulding

The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government, is that they have seen things in bits and pieces instead of totals.

Francis Schaeffer

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

Aleksandar Hemon

For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large.

Diane Ladd

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Patrick deWitt

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Thomas Sowell

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Gerhard Richter

When I went to medical school, I was taught about two basic kinds of diabetes: juvenile onset and adult onset. From the time I did my training in medical school to the end of my residency we were already seeing the transformation of adult onset diabetes into Type II, which is what we call it now, which from my perspective is a euphemism we have draped over this condition to conceal the fact that what was a chronic disease in midlife is now epidemic in children. Frankly, Type II diabetes in a seven year old is adult onset diabetes. We just don't want to confront that unpleasant fact.

David Katz

As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to Occupy Wall Street. As tensions increase, people will become more willing to engage in protest. But that moment is not now.