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Andrew Weil
Integrative Medicine
Andrew Weil: I have my own ways of learning. And I never liked libraries, and I would like to get out of them quickly. So I developed very good skills at being able to go in and find exactly the information that I want and get out. And I feel very much that the way that I learned best, and I think the way that's most efficient to teach, is to teach the underlying structure of a field and let students look up the details and specifics as they need them. And that's not done in medicine today. There is a teaching of just a huge amount of detail.
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Andrew Weil
Integrative Medicine
Andrew Weil: The first step that I take in assessing a patient is whether there is something there that demands immediate conventional intervention. You know, I think the greatest sin that you could make in this field is to miss the diagnosis of a condition for which conventional medicine works very well. So that's the first thing, is to rule that out. If that's not present, then you have a lot of latitude in experimenting with other methods. But even if you use the conventional methods, I think there are -- it is often worth supporting the body in ways that can reduce the toxicity of those methods or increase their efficacy.
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Sanford Weill
Financier and Philanthropist
Sanford Weill: The teacher I think that really helped me the most was a teacher by the name of Clare Franz, who was a Latin teacher at Peekskill Military Academy where I went to high school, and was also the tennis coach. And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City. And he sort of helped me through a lot of things in life, what I got in the classroom from how to learn how to think in Latin and be deliberate, to competing, and trying to be a gentleman and do it the right way on the tennis court.
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Tim D. White
Pioneering Paleoanthropologist
I think there is a common misperception of what it is that we field paleontologists do. Many people think that we just go out, wander around, and stumble on things. And we actually see this in almost every media report of a new fossil discovery. You know, "The team stumbled upon these new remains " Believe me, we don't stumble around! You are looking at maybe that few seconds of actual discovery being luck. Luck, over whether you look in that direction, or that direction, and then down, and see the cranium. But that's the last couple percent. The 98 percent before that is the hard work of identifying where to walk in the first place, setting up the logistics to get these large teams of scientists into the field, finding out how old those fossils are by using all the geological dating techniques that we have, studying things in the laboratory for years and years and years. The last little bit is luck, but most of it is just plain hard work and determination on these fossil discoveries.
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Tim D. White
Pioneering Paleoanthropologist
I took, as an undergraduate a series of courses that didn't, at first glance, have a lot to do with what I ended up doing. I particularly liked the paleontology classes, and anthropology, as a discipline, often hasn't encouraged folks to go out and take biology, geology, paleontology, and incorporate those things into an anthropology curriculum. I was interested to do all of that, but that left me, by the time I got to the end of my undergraduate career, left with me a couple of majors but not really a clear career path, if you like. At that point I went to the University of Michigan to do graduate school, and found myself in another great environment, with an intersection of museums dealing with geology and paleontology and archeology.
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