He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

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

The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.

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

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.