Clifford Allbutt Quotes

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• We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.
• In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside…
• I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes…If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain…
• Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless.
• Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt…
• Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise how…
• The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted,…
• Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other…

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