Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
Bernard DeVotoThe only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
Bernard DeVotoThe trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Bernard DeVoto