Talk:Fielding Hudson Garrison

Quotations in An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed. (1929) pp. 14–16

• “Science has no country.” — Pasteur.

• “Research begins as physics and ends, as mathematics.” — Lord Bacon.

• “Medicine is science in the making.” — Magendie.

• “Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.” — Hippocrates.

• “I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.” — Hippocrates.

• “Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest men of science go back to medicine for their first principles.” — Aristotle.

• “I look back-upon my medical studies as the school which taught me, in a more penetrating and convincing way than any other, the eternal principles of scientific work, principles so simple yet continually forgotten, so clear and yet ever shrouded by a deceptive veil.” — Helmholtz.

• “It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ’ ’ — ^Huxley.

• “Truth is the daughter of Time and not of authority.” — Leonardo, Bacon, Baglivi.

• “Doctrinaire formula-worship, that is our real enemy.” — Max Neuburger.

• “The medical errors of one century constitute the popular faith of the next.” — Alonzo Clark.

• “The methods of quackery are merely a theft from the most ancient phases of folk-medicine.” — Sudhoff.

• “Medicine is as old as the human race, as old as the necessity for the removal of disease.” — Haeser.

• “Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.” — Virchow.

• “Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.” — Huxley.

• “The duty of science is not to attack the objects of behef, but to stake out the limits of the knowable and to center consciousness vdthin them.” — Virchow.

• “Science is the topography of ignorance.” — O. W. Holmes.

• “In the realm of error, the truth is only a point.” — Marmontel.

• “But like a man walking alone in the darkness, I resolved to proceed so slowly and carefully that, even if I did not get very far, I was certain not to fall.” — Descartes.

• “Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.” — Claude Bernard.

• “Humanism is neither atheistic nor pantheistic, since it has but one formula for things unknowable, namely: I do not know.” — Virchow.

• “Science repulses the indefinite.” — Claude Bernard.

• “As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions, so long MU the gateway of science be open to mysticism.” — Virchow.

• “If I had to define fife in a word, it would be: Life is creation.” — Claude Bernard.

• “In all things relating to disease, credulity remains a permanent fact, uninfluenced by civilization or education.” — Osler.

• “True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.” — Claude Bernard.

• “The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.” — Huxley.

• “Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.” — Claude Bernard.

• “It is the mind which is really alive and sees things, yet it hardly sees anything without preliminary instruction.” — Charcot.

• “In science, the thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.” — Claude Bernard.

• “Disease is from of old and nothing about it has changed. It is we who change, as we learn to recognize what was formerly imperceptible.” — Charcot.

• “A discovery is usually an unforeseen relation not confirmed in theory, for otherwise it would have been foreseen.” — Claude Bernard.

• “The success of a discovery depends upon the time of its appearance.” — Weir Mitchell.

• “If we are to speak of ‘entities’ in disease, these must not be the names, nor even our concepts, but the things — the thing Thompson and the thing Wilkinson in certain phases of their being.” — Allbutt.

• “How is it that, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates?” — Charcot.

• “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.” — Allbutt.

• “Diseases are not even species, such as cats and toads, but abnormal, although not altogether irregular behaviors of animals and plants.” — Allbutt.

• “To know things well, one must know them in detail, and as this is infinite, our knowledge is necessarily superficial.” — La Rochefoucauld.

• “Science increases our power as it lessens our pride.” — Claude Bernard.

• “The education of most people ends upon graduation; that of the physician means a lifetime of incessant study.” — Marx.

• “Medicine absorbs the physician’s whole being because it is concerned with the entire human organism.” — Goethe.

• “In medicine, sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission venial.” — Tronchin.

• “From Hippocrates to Hunter, the treatment of disease was one long traffic in hypotheses.” — Osler.

• “In science, a law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process.” — Allbutt.

• “The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of human nature as, to his disillusion, many a lawgiver has discovered.” — Allbutt.

• “The names of the prime-movers of science disappear gradually in a general fusion, and the more a science advances, the more impersonal and detached it becomes. — Claude Bernard.

• “The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.” — Claude Bernard.

• “It is with medicine as with mathematics: we should occupy our minds only with what we continue to know; what we once knew is of little consequence.” — Sainte-Beuve.

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

• “An important phase of medicine is the ability to appraise the literature correctly.” — Hippocrates.

• “Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.” — Virchow.

• “The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.” — Sir James Barrie.

• “The greatest men I have ever known have written their onm papers.” — Archibald Malloch.

• “All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the humane sense in which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.” — Nothnagel.

• “Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds uphill all the way, and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable hlountains, unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells. Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.” — Osler.

• “I thought that all was right in the system of the universe — that consistent with our desires and passions was the shortness of our life and our being liable to suffering and disease — that without this we should have been inanimate, cold, and heartless creatures.” — Sir Charles Bell.

• “Medicine is a sacred calling, and he who makes it ridiculous is guilty of sacrilege.” — Sudhoff.

• “For thousands of years medicine has united the aims and aspirations of the best and noblest of mankind. To depreciate its treasures is to discount all human endeavor and achievement at naught.” — Marx.

• “The future belongs to those who shall have done most for suffering humanitjL” — Pasteur.

• “Where there is love for humanity, there also is love for the art of medicine.” — Hippocrates.

• “If there is any possible means of increasing the common wisdom and ability of mankind, it must be sought in medicine.” — Descartes.

• “Aims, methods, and persistency are common to the medical profession of all countries. On its flag is inscribed what should be the life rule of all nations: Fraternity and solidarity.” — Abraham Jacobi.

• Ficaia (talk) 13:55, 25 August 2025 (UTC)