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William Osler Quotes: If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
         

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.


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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.



He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.



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



The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.



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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.





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