William Osler Quotes About Science
-
In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
→ -
The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
→ -
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.
→ -
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. 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. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.
→ -
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
→ -
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
→ -
Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
→ -
There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
→ -
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
→ -
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
→
Related Authors
-
-
Harvey Cushing Neurosurgery -
Galen Physician -
Hippocrates Greek physician -
Abraham Flexner Reporter -
William Harvey Physician -
Thomas Browne Author -
Roger Wolcott Sperry Researcher -
Herman Melville Novelist -
Charles Scott Sherrington Neurophysiologist -
Samuel Johnson Writer -
Thomas de Quincey Essayist -
Paul Broca Physician -
Babe Paley Socialite -
John Hughlings Jackson Neurologist -
Silas Weir Mitchell Physician -
-
Rudolf Virchow Doctor -
Frederick Banting Medical doctor -
Andreas Vesalius Physician