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

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

William Osler
Art, Science, Medicine
Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.46, ACP Press

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.

William Osler
Wise, Art, Strong
Sir William Osler (1963). “Aequanimitas, and Other Papers that Have Stood the Test of Time. [With an Introd. by Paul Dudley White]”

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

William Osler
Art, Practice Of Medicine, Calling
Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.13, Duke University Press

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

William Osler
Art, Medicine, Might

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

William Osler
Art, Humility, Grace
Sir William Osler, Classics of Medicine Library (1985). “The philosophical essays”

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.

William Osler
Art, Men, Plain Language
William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.194, Ravenio Books

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

William Osler
Art, Moving, Men
Address at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 22 Feb. 1905

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