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“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course.”

— William Owens

“Throughout medical school, residency, specialties, and subspecialties some feel we have allowed the science to overshadow the art.”

— Richard Colgan

“Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.”

— Emmet Densmore

“Sadly, interpretation of medical science is frequently influenced by the dark forces of industry, out to make a killing. And”

— John Yudkin

“The tragic fact is that the maps of the world are drawn in blood.”

— George Jonas

“He had spent most of his lifetime studying the art of medicine and realized now that he would never really understand its mysteries. For…

— Erich Segal

From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire…

— John Gorrie

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

— William Osler

“The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.”

— Sigmund Freud

“This is the one chance to learn about other things than medicine. Medicine is the art of observation and interpretation, which are skills that…

— David B. Agus

“The sciences paint an impersonal and objective account of the world, deliberately devoid of "meaning", telling us about origins and mechanics of life, by…

— John Barrow

“Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.”

— Anonymous