What patients seek is not scientific knowledge tha... -Paul Kalanithi

What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

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Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it a...
The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have ...
What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing...
Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never c...

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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them....
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others....
You have to just have football knowledge. Without football knowledge, it doesn't matter how much skill you have....
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological repr...
Many things influence a person's eating habits. Knowledge of what is considered healthy and what is not would be one, but I doubt it would make it to ...
What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice....
What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing...
Cable news is force-feeding you an endless back and forth of pundits who consistently get everything wrong, while at the same time, they mask their op...
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn....
It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful informatio...