Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we...

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship...

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people’s experience.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.