Pharmaceutical companies will soon rule the world if we keep letting them believe that we are a happy, functional society so long as all the women are on Prozac, all children on Ritalin, and all men on Viagra. – Terri Guillemets, “Getting by with a little help,” 1998

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host. – Charles V. Chapin

On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have withheld our hands instead of making them work against God. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)