“From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.” WellsArtWisdomSciencePrayerCommonLordKnowledgeCasesToo MuchDiseaseMedicinePatientCommon SenseCuresEnduranceContemptInabilityZealClevernessDeliveranceTreating PatientsMedical Knowledge Author:Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet
“[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.” IfsHumansMightScienceHateLordVoteTablesAffairPassingPassingsEaseAbstractConcretePropositionsPretensionCensureMultiplicationEuclid Book:The works Source: The works