"Thus we work not in the light of……" — Clifford Allbutt
"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 at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour."
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Clifford Allbutt
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8 Quotes by Clifford Allbutt
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We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain…
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In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of…
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I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes…If we are to prevent disease it is to…
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Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily…
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Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know,…
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The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former…
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Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we…
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