Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.