Joseph Murray Quotes

• You cannot stop the human mind from working.

  Joseph Murray

  Mind, Humans, Human Mind

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• To the patient, any operation is momentous.

  Joseph Murray

  Patient, Operations

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• Its the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.

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  Doctors, Years, Treats

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• Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

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  Saving, Kidneys, Patient

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• One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he meant was, you have to plan every operation You cannot ever be casual You have to realize that any operation is a potential fatality.

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  Science, Errors, Giants

  "A Conversation With: Joseph E. Murray; On Surgical Innovation And The Questions It Can Raise". Interview With Cornelia Dean, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2001.

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• Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist - I don't see it. One truth is revealed truth, the other is scientific truth. If you really believe that creation is good, there can be no harm in studying science. The more we learn about creation - the way it emerged - it just adds to the glory of God. Personally, I've never seen a conflict.

  Joseph Murray

  Growing Up, Believe, Catholic

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• Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working.

  Joseph Murray

  Failure, Mean, Science

  "A Conversation With: Joseph E. Murray; On Surgical Innovation And The Questions It Can Raise". Interview With Cornelia Dean, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2001.

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• It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in ten different ways at once. And the improbability of any complex organ being produced and brought to perfection in any such way is an improbability of the same kind and degree as that of producing a poem or a mathematical demonstration by throwing letters at random on a table.

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  Eye, Science, Order

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• And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

  Joseph Murray

  Morning, Creator, Every Morning

  "Nobel winner famous for first successful kidney transplant Murray dies in Boston", www.foxnews.com. November 26, 2012.

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• Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations.

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  Animal, Joints, Essentials

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• Les digo [a los estudiantes de medicina] que son las personas más afortunadas de la tierra por estar en la facultad de medicina, y que se olviden de toda esta preocupación por los H.M.O. y se centren en ayudar al paciente. Es el mejor momento para ser médico, porque se pueden curar y tratar enfermedades que hace un par de años eran intratables.

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  Couple, School, Eye

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• I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.

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  Skins, Performing

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• Quería ser cirujano, posiblemente influido por las cualidades de nuestro médico de cabecera, que atendía nuestras dolencias infantiles.

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  Doctors, Childhood, Quality

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• The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

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  Rejection, Skins, Host

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• I've never regretted a swim

  Joseph Murray

  Swim, Never Regret

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