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William Osler was a renowned Canadian physician, considered one of the founders of modern medical education. Born on July 12, 1849, he passed away on December 29, 1919. Osler made significant contributions to the fields of pathology, clinical medicine, and medical education.

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“There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.”

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Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.”

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Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

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

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Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.”

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Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.”

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Book:Aequanimitas

Source: Aequanimitas

“The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.”

Science Nations Destiny Balance Accounts Crucible

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.”

Want Humans Heart Facts Science Accounts Dry Feds Human Heart

Book:The philosophical essays

Source: The philosophical essays

“The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.”

Way May Science Loses Modern Development Accounts Extraordinary Workers Proportion Outlook Modern Science Mazes Fragmented Undoing Minutiae

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.”

Source: Osler's

“In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'”

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Author:William Osler

About the Author

Born: July 12, 1849
Died: December 29, 1919
Known for: Physician
Quotes: 135

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A Way of LifeRelated source material

Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and ScienceRelated source material

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