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…

- Joseph Murray

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

- Joseph Murray

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

- Joseph Murray

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 …

- Joseph Murray

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

- Joseph Murray

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

- Joseph Murray

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

- Joseph Murray

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

- Joseph Murray

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

- Joseph Murray