Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."

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.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.