Joseph Murray Quotes

Joseph Murray — American Scientist born on April 01, 1919, died on November 26, 2012

Joseph Edward Murray was an American plastic surgeon who performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23, 1954... (wikipedia)

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'

If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress.

Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

Joseph Murray Quotes

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