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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
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.
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.
Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
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