One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, … - Joseph Murray

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Joseph Murray

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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To the patient, any operation is momentous.

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You cannot stop the human mind from working.

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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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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.

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