Scientist

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.