Armand Trousseau Quotes

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Every science touches art at some points—every art has its scientific side; the worst man of science is he who is never an artist, and the worst artist is he who is never a man of science.

Armand Trousseau
Literature, painting and music, do not yield an enjoyment more keen than that which is afforded by the study of medicine, and whoever does not find in it, from the commencement of his career, an almost irresistible attraction, ought to renounce the intention of following our profession.

Armand Trousseau
Take care not to fancy that you are physicians as soon as you have mastered scientific facts; they only afford to your understanding an opportunity of bringing forth fruit, and of elevating you to the high position as a man of art.

Armand Trousseau
Physics, chemistry, or natural history, which are unquestionably useful in medicine, but no more make the physician than the science of perspective makes the landscape-painter.

Armand Trousseau
The physician, worthy of the priesthood to which he has devoted himself, has no right to place on one side his beliefs, even though they be false, that he may experiment upon his patients, and wait with curiosity to see what "expectation" can do for them.

Armand Trousseau
A conception of the nature of tangible objects is acquired by a simple perception of all the phenomena by which objects manifest themselves. This perception demands no intellectual effort; it requires attention and memory, and - as memory may prove treacherous - registration of the observed phenomena.

Armand Trousseau
The man who is convinced that there is something to be gained, will always gain something; and in the most beaten paths something new can always be found, provided it be sought for with ardour and intelligence.

Armand Trousseau