Clifford Allbutt quotes
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise how little this is: in every direction we seem to travel but a very short way before we are brought to a stop; our eyes are opened to see that our path is beset with doubts, and that even our best-made knowledge comes but too soon to an end.”
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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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“Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.”
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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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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.”
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“I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.”
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Source : "AA Gill obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.184, Macmillan
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Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press
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