William Osler Quotes
Most popular William Osler Quotes

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Human nature has only two primal passions—to get and to beget.

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

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

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

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

There are only two sorts of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice with their tongues.

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

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