Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise how little this is: in every direction we seem to travel but a very short way before we are brought to a stop; our eyes are opened to see that our path is beset with doubts, and that even our best-made knowledge comes but too soon to an end.
Clifford AllbuttI am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processesโฆIf we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses that we must look.
Clifford AllbuttAnother source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.
Clifford AllbuttThe use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.
Clifford Allbutt