There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.