Cases Quote by Claude Bernard

I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics…

— Claude Bernard

Science rejects the indeterminate.

— Claude Bernard

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

— Evan Esar

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

— William Osler

“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid…

— Marcel Proust

“Those who do scientific or medical studies and have conclusions are reflecting the results preferred by those who pay them.”

— Richard Diaz

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry,…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to…

— Alice Dreger

Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful…

— Vernon Coleman

“doctors don’t think probabilities apply to their patients,”

— Michael Lewis

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.

— Theodor Adorno

In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of…

— Marcel Proust