All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep your body in shape.
Interpretation
Staying physically fit is essential for the healing process, especially when dealing with serious health issues like paralysis.
Christopher Reeve emphasizes the importance of maintaining physical fitness as a critical component of recovery from paralysis. His insight highlights that, regardless of scientific advancements in curing ailments, the individual's body condition plays a vital role in their ability to heal and improve. This perspective encourages individuals facing health challenges to actively participate in their recovery through physical care and conditioning.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.
Once you choose hope, anything's possible
Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.
Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical, and significantly different from that of a pig or horse. You may be impressed by how much human beings differ from one another, but if you were to look into the fine details of the molecules of which they are constructed, you would be astonished by their similarity.
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.
Given exponential growth dynamics of infectious diseases, containing an epidemic is straightforward early on, but nearly impossible once a disease spreads among a population.
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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