Clifford Allbutt Quotes

• I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes…If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses that we must look.

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  Stress, Sick, Looks

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• In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of human nature, as to his disillusion many a lawgiver has discovered.

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  Science, Expression, Law

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• We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

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  Health, Thinking, Development

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• Los estudiantes que han asistido a mis clases [de medicina] recordarán que intento no sólo enseñarles lo que sabemos, sino también que se den cuenta de lo poco que es: en todas las direcciones parece que recorremos un camino muy corto antes de que nos detengamos; nuestros ojos se abren para ver que nuestro camino está plagado de dudas, y que incluso nuestros mejores conocimientos llegan demasiado pronto a su fin.

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  Conocimiento, Ojo, Ciencia

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• The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

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  Writing, Science, Mind

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• Otra fuente de falacias es el círculo vicioso de las ilusiones, que consiste, por un lado, en creer lo que vemos y, por otro, en ver lo que creemos.

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  Believe, Science, Errors

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• Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.

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  Light, Physicians, Essentials

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• It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is a mode of growth.

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  Growth, Syphilis, Forgotten

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• Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless.

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  Circles, Medicine, Blooming

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