“Medicine can cure; faith cannot.”
Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 236
“Medicine can cure; faith cannot.”
Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 236
Hippocrates (-460–-370 BC) ancient Greek physician
7:87
Variant translation: What cannot be cured by medicaments is cured by the knife, what the knife cannot cure is cured with the searing iron, and whatever this cannot cure must be considered incurable.
Aphorisms
“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Source: Nancy Hine The Depression Trap: Ten Ways to Set Yourself Free http://books.google.co.in/books?id=7PxT2AJS_H4C&pg=PA61, Red Raft Publishing LLP, 2008, p. 61
“What cannot be cured must be endured.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 15.
“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
According to The Veterinarian (Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science) for 1851, edited by Mr. Percivall, this is Ben Jonson's "satirical definition of physic".
Misattributed
“6124. What cannot be cured,
Must be endured.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters