Canadian - Scientist | July 12, 1849 - December 29, 1919
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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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.
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Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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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.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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