William Osler Science Quotations

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

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

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

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.