I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.

It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in ten different ways at once. And the improbability of any complex organ being produced and brought to perfection in any such way is an improbability of the same kind and degree as that of producing a poem or a mathematical demonstration by throwing letters at random on a table.

And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

I've never regretted a swim

To the patient, any operation is momentous.