Ibn Sina quotes from The Physician (2013)

View Quote 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...

View Quote Ibn Sina: [as he treats Rob after he was beaten] You seem... more interested in medicine than my other patients.
Rob Cole: I've come to be a student of Ibn Sina.
Ibn Sina: Have you now?
Rob Cole: I've been told he's the greatest healer in all the world.
Ibn Sina: No he's not that great. Quite ordinary, really.
Rob Cole: Do you know him?
Ibn Sina: A little better each day.
Rob Cole: Could you speak to him for me? [in order to get accepted into Ibn Sina's medical school]
Ibn Sina: You rest now.

View Quote Rob Cole: When the plague came, you were as helpless as a beach is to the advance of the sea. The tide washed over us and dragged our people away, and we could do nothing to stop it.
Ibn Sina: You ask of medicine what only Allah can perform. Or Yahweh.
Rob Cole: Do you never doubt your calling?
Ibn Sina: Every morning and every evening. In between I work too hard to think about it.

View Quote Ibn Sina: This is the burden every physician must learn to bear. You can't look upon death as the enemy.
Rob Cole: Than what? A friend?
Ibn Sina: I've calculated the orbits... of all these stars and planets. Filled volumes... with calculations. I have barely scratched the real secrets of creation.
Rob Cole: Isn't it frustrating there's so much you don't know?
Ibn Sina: No. Fills me with awe. How pale and tedious would this world be without mystery.
Rob Cole: Master. Could you have cured my mother's side-sickness?
Ibn Sina: That's beyond our reach. Maybe in a hundred years. Maybe in a thousand.

View Quote Ibn Sina: [in prison, as they await their execution for Rob's performing human dissection on a corpse] What is it like? Inside?
Rob Cole: It's 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 about human circulation would be... wrong?!
Rob Cole: Master... nothing is as it is in the books. Nothing!
Ibn Sina: Continue. Don't skip a single detail.