In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

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In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

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It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

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Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

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