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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would…

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The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without…
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to…
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn…
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those…
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of…
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;…
An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number…
It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind.…
The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But…
The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists…
The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states…

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The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins… — Ray Lankester
Botany is based on fixed genera. — Carl Linnaeus
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of… — Wilfred Trotter
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level… — George Gaylord Simpson
In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world. — Stephen Hawking
The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera. — Carl Linnaeus
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. — George Gaylord Simpson
Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a… — Leon Croizat
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure. — Carl Linnaeus
I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range… — Asa Gray
People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future… — John Moody

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