“Laughter is the only tranquillizer with no side effects.”
Red Symons (1949) Australian broadcaster and musician
Attributed quotes
L. Bender, L. Cobrinik, G. Faretra, D.V. Siva Sankar, "The Treatment of Childhood Schizophrenia with LSD and UML" http://www.neurodiversity.com/library_bender_1966a.html, Biological Treatment of Mental Illness, Proceedings II of the International Conference of the Manfred Sakel Foundation 10/31-11/3/1962, 1966; 2(4):463-91.
“Laughter is the only tranquillizer with no side effects.”
Red Symons (1949) Australian broadcaster and musician
Attributed quotes
“We are less than a decade away from the medical lab the size of a sugar cube.”
Philippe Kahn (1952) Entrepreneur, camera phone creator
Founding speech for Fullpower, 2003, focusing in particular on the power of MEMS and Nanotechnology and its applications to life sciences.
John P. Kotter (1947) author of The heart of Change
Introduction to the 2002 edition, p. 2
The Heart of Change, (2002)
“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
It appears in multiple anti-vaccination books, all by Trung Nguyen and a co-writer, circa 2018. In September 2021 it is echoed everywhere, including medical-journal articles (on various subjects), with no source given. Right above the Aldous Huxley "quote", these books quote a much earlier anti-vax author. Coincidentally, that author says (elsewhere in his book) this: <br class="br">Let us admire all-powerful Nature, which is not so easily brought into this serious and lasting disorder by our perverse intrusions; for otherwise, there would hardly have remained a human being alive. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Christian Charles Schieferdecker, in Dr. C. G. G. Nittinger's EVILS OF VACCINATION https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dr_C_G_G_Nittinger_s_Evils_of_Vaccinatio/6CUaAAAAYAAJ, 1856, p.40
“In tranquility one recollects them with affection, their instinct is good, crazy family good.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
Harold Koontz (1909–1984)
Source: "The Management Theory Jungle," 1961, p. 178
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, Remarks on Economic Mobility (December 2013)
Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist
Attributed to Leary by Terence McKenna in one of his talks ( "The World and Its Double" https://terencemckenna.wikispaces.com/The+World+And+Its+Double, 11 September 1993, Nature Friends Lodge, Sierra Madre, CA), though he also stated[citation needed] Leary denied ever having said it. <br class="br">Misattributed