Andreas Vesalius quotes
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“I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.”
-- Andreas VesaliusSource : Letter on the China Root, quoted in "Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564" by Charles Donald O'Malley, 1964.
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“The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.”
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“Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; it is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.”
-- Andreas Vesalius
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“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”
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“I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.”
Source : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.40, Dial Press
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Source : Alfred Richard Orage (1954). “Essays and aphorisms”
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“You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.”
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Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.
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“Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.”
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