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.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the advancement of science in overcoming challenges previously deemed insurmountable.
Christopher Reeve's quote reflects the evolving mindset of the scientific community towards innovation and discovery. He suggests that terms like 'impossible' or 'unsolvable' are outdated in an era where science is rapidly progressing, allowing for the possibility of not just treating but completely eradicating diseases and injuries. This perspective inspires hope for a future where solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems are within reach.
In practice
During a keynote speech at a medical conference, one might use this quote to inspire researchers.
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.
The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who would be healed.
We need more science in the world. Train me.
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.
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