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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 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.

William Osler
Science, Mazes, Development
Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.118, Duke University Press

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

William Osler
Wise, Science, Looks
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.29, ACP Press

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

William Osler
Science, Destiny, Crucible
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.254, ACP Press

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

William Osler
Heart, Science, Dry
Sir William Osler, Classics of Medicine Library (1985). “The philosophical essays”

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.

William Osler
Education, Hard Work, Science
William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.73, Ravenio Books

At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. 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. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.

William Osler
Attitude, Science, Simple
Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

William Osler
Science, Men, Pneumonia
Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses 'Medicine in the Nineteenth Century'

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