"In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions."
-William Osler
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"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
-William Osler
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"The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it."
-William Osler
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"No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher."
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"The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
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"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."
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"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
-Bertrand Russell
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"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
-Will Durant
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
-Albert Einstein
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"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."
-Charles Darwin
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
-Jacob Bronowski
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"Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science."
-Robert Green Ingersoll
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