Today We Have Big, Crude Instruments Guided By Intelligent Surgeons, And We Have Little, Stupid Molecules Of Drugs That Get Dumped Into The Body, Diffuse Around And Interfere With Things As Best They Can. At Present, Medicine Is Unable To Heal Anything. - SearchQuotes

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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

K Eric Drexler

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