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“The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.”

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William James Mayo

William James Mayo was a renowned American physician, born on June 29, 1861, and died on July 28, 1939. He made significant contributions to the field of medicine, particularly in internal medicine and medical education. more

“The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the young idea is shackled with timidity and a useful thought is buried in the impenetrable gloom of eternal oblivion.”

“The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a king who guides the spirit of his contemporaries by knowledge and creative work, by teaching and research in the field of applied science, and who conquers for science provinces which have only been raided by craftsmen.”

“The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things; the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of the same seal, the word ought to produce the idea, and the idea to be a picture of the fact.”

Ideas Facts Science Three Objects Produce Ought Series Impression Branches Impossibility Three Things Seals Separating Owing Physical Science Nomenclature

Book:The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Elements of chemistry

Source: The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Elements of chemistry

“The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of the floating leaf freighted with its cargo of atmospheric dust; and the flying balloon is but the infant's soap-bubble lightly laden and overgrown. But the Telescope, even in its most elementary form, embodies a novel and gigantic idea, without an analogue in nature, and without a prototype in experience”

Source: Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts

“The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.”

Men World Mind Ideas Powerful Clear Intellectual Intelligence Factors Most Powerful Good Will Energetic

Author:J. Arthur Thomson

“There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance.”

Ideas Different Real Science Used Loses Danger Phrases Significance Nomenclature

Author:Gilbert N. Lewis

“To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when it came to really new ideas or inventions. A common joke of the time [mid 1940s] said that the Russians could not surreptitiously introduce nuclear bombs in suitcases into the United States because they had not yet been able to perfect a suitcase.”

“We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but cannot artificially produce. It is unquestionable, however, that education, legal enactments, and general social conditions have a stupendous influence on the development of the originative faculty present in a nation and determine whether it shall be a fountain of new ideas or become simply a purchaser from others of ready-made inventions.”

“We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced-and sometimes strongly-by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.”

Knows Giving May Ideas Sometimes Truth Science Imagination Imagine Exception Imagine That Bias Seekers

Book:The anatomy and physiology of capillaries

Source: The anatomy and physiology of capillaries

“[Richard Drew] always encouraged his people to pursue ideas... He said, "If it's a dumb idea, you'll find out. You'll smack into that brick wall, then you'll stagger back and see another opportunity that you wouldn't have seen otherwise."”

People Ifs Said Ideas Science Opportunity Wall Research Invention Pursue Dumb Bricks Smack Brick Wall Another Opportunity

Author:Arthur Fry

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