Kutipan tentang kesehatan dari para peraih Nobel Prize

Kumpulan kutipan tentang kesehatan dari para peraih Nobel Prize yang dikutip secara akurat dari sumber-sumber terpercaya.

A. BIDANG FISIOLOGI ATAU KEDOKTERAN

1. Drew Weissman – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 (mRNA vaccine)

"I have a modern Daoist approach that starts with the universe, the solar system, the Earth, and all its elements – water, air, stone, lava – and everything that makes up Earth. Then all living things: plants and animals. When any of that is out of balance, health is disturbed."

Sumber: Nobel Week Dialogue 2024, dikutip dari nobelprize.org

2. Katalin Karikó – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 (mRNA vaccine)

"Lo más importante es tener salud física y mental, aprender a gestionar el estrés. Es importante que si disfrutan lo que hacen, si son felices haciéndolo, serán cada vez mejores."

Terjemahan: "Yang paling penting adalah memiliki kesehatan fisik dan mental, belajar mengelola stres. Penting bahwa jika Anda menikmati apa yang Anda lakukan, jika Anda bahagia melakukannya, Anda akan menjadi semakin baik."

"Siempre hay que centrarse en lo que podemos cambiar y no en los otros, porque así no avanzamos."

Terjemahan: "Kita harus selalu fokus pada apa yang bisa kita ubah dan bukan pada orang lain, karena dengan begitu kita tidak akan maju."

Sumber: Wawancara dengan jurnalis Hungaria, dikutip dari MVS Noticias (2023)

3. Shimon Sakaguchi – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 (regulatory T cells)

"I hope ... our society will recognize the importance of medical science and medical research."

"I believe that even for diseases that are currently difficult to treat, solutions exist, effective treatments will inevitably be found, and preventive measures will also be discovered."

Sumber: Konferensi pers di Karolinska Institute, dikutip dari The Japan Times (2025)

4. Venki Ramakrishnan – Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 (ribosome structure)

"Research is being done on stem cells for the treatment of blood cancer and blood disorders, which can increase the lifespan of a person. However, we have to avoid a high-calorie and fat-rich diet and do regular exercise to control cholesterol and diabetes."

"Science and technology can change our entire lives, but for their proper use, an understanding of literature, philosophy, and history is also necessary."

Sumber: Jaipur Literature Festival 2025, dikutip dari ETV Bharat

5. Charles Rice – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 (hepatitis C virus)

"If you think research is expensive, try disease."

"Preventing disease is a lot cheaper than letting it happen and then trying to respond."

Sumber: Wawancara dengan El País (2025), dikutip dari AS.com

6. James Watson – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 (DNA structure)

"有质量地活到八九十岁就很好了。我现在的目标是活到90岁。我现在还在打网球。我认为生活质量更重要，没必要活那么多年。"

Terjemahan: "Hidup dengan kualitas sampai usia 80 atau 90 tahun sudah sangat baik. Target saya sekarang adalah hidup sampai 90 tahun. Saya masih bermain tenis. Saya pikir kualitas hidup lebih penting, tidak perlu hidup terlalu lama."

Sumber: Wawancara dengan Xinhua News (2017)

7. Joseph L. Goldstein – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1985 (cholesterol metabolism)

"The barriers that divide medicine from physiology must be broken down."

"We hope that this award will be inspirational to young physicians who are trying to acquire the training and develop the boldness necessary to become creators and innovators in medical research."

Sumber: Nobel Lecture, dikutip dari nobelprize.org

8. Albert Szent-Györgyi – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1937 (vitamin C)

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought."

"All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life."

Sumber: Wikiquote / Today In Science

B. BIDANG PERDAMAIAN (Nobel Peace Prize)

9. International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War – Nobel Peace Prize 1985

"True to the Hippocratic Oath, we cannot keep silent knowing what the final epidemic – nuclear war – can bring to humankind."

"The bell of Hiroshima rings in our hearts not as funeral knell but as an alarm bell calling out to actions to protect life on our planet."

"We warned the peoples and governments that medicine would be helpless to offer even minimal relief to the hundreds of millions of victims in nuclear war."

Sumber: Pidato penerimaan Yevgeny Chazov, Nobel Peace Prize 1985, nobelprize.org

10. Bernard Lown – Nobel Peace Prize 1985 (co-founder, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War)

"The art of medicine is a process for nurturing a special human relationship that champions a partnership for healing."

"The physician is not a glorified repairman of a broken-down machine; being treated is a human being with a mind and a soul."

"I prefer to go out on a limb for one simple reason: that is where the fruit grows."

Sumber: Buku "Practicing the Art while Mastering the Science" (1995), dikutip dari STAT News

11. Ralph Bunche – Nobel Peace Prize 1950

"Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life."

Sumber: Pidato Nobel Peace Prize, dikutip dari nobelprize.org & UN.org

12. Miriam Were (Nominee) – Pernyataan tentang Peace and Health

"Peace provides the best opportunities for all of us. Peace and health are the foundation for the well-being of humanity and the planet."

Sumber: The Friend (2022)

C. BIDANG KIMIA

13. Aaron Ciechanover – Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 (ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation)

"We are different from one another, so it's naive to expect to deal with the same disease with the same medicine."

Sumber: Kuliah di University of Macau (2015)

D. BIDANG SASTRA (Literature)

14. Olga Tokarczuk – Nobel Prize in Literature 2018

"Now we are becoming more and more aware that we cannot live without an entire environment. A single human being cannot live without all those relations."

Sumber: Nobel Week Dialogue 2024, dikutip dari The Nobel Prize

E. ALFRED NOBEL – PENDIRI HADIAH NOBEL

"All medical workers unite in pursuing that aim and in doing so feel members of one great fellowship."

"During most of his life, Alfred Nobel suffered from poor health. He complained of indigestion, headaches and occasional spells of depression."

"In his laboratory notebooks, he often made notes about ideas that should be tested 'to mitigate or cure disease'."

Sumber: nobelprize.org

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F. KUTIPAN TAMBAHAN DARI PARA PERAIH NOBEL

15. Alexander Fleming – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 (penicillin)

"I did not invent penicillin. Nature did that. I only discovered it by accident."

Sumber: Dikutip dari nobelprize.org

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16. Paul Nurse – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 (cell cycle regulation)

"If you make incorrect assumptions in analysis, things can go bad quickly for public health."

Sumber: Big Think

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17. Tasuku Honjo – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018 (cancer immunotherapy)

"I hope this century will be remembered as the century of the cancer treatment. That's my hope."

Sumber: BrainyQuote

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18. Gertrude B. Elion – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988 (drug development)

"The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves."

Sumber: The New York Times (1988)

Catatan Metodologis:

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