William Osler quotes
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
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.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.