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"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."
"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
"Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?"
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"The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations."
"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."
"Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science."
"Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind."
"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science."
"I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five."
"You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage."
"Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof."
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