The Physician

The Physician Quotes

In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.

Ibn Sina: Because there is nothing to be afraid of.Death is merely a threshold we must all cross... into the silence, after the final heartbeat... drifting away with our final exhalation... into eternal peace...
Ibn Sina: How pale and tedious this world would be without mystery.
Rob Cole: I don't want to treat warts all my life. I don't want to pull teeth and sell horse piss as a miracle tonic. I want to learn how to cure cataracts, side sickness and all other diseases.
Ibn Sina: What is it like?
Rob Cole: Inside?
Ibn Sina: [nods]
Rob Cole: It is both... beautiful... and frightening.
Ibn Sina: Go on.
Rob Cole: I saw the heart!
Ibn Sina: Describe it.
Rob Cole: It has two chambers with an impassable wall in between.
Ibn Sina: So how does the blood get from one side to the other?
Rob Cole: By way of the lungs, I think.
Ibn Sina: So all our theories of human circulation would be... wrong.
Rob Cole: Master, nothing is as it is in the books! Nothing!
Rebecca: In my fever, I dreamt that we were man and wife. We had children... Four!
Rob Cole: Did we roam around in a barber's car?
Rebecca: [smiles] No, we lived in a great city. Where you built a Madraza!
Rob Cole: All by myself?
Rebecca: I helped.

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