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

- Joseph Murray

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

- 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

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

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

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

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

- 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