In medicine there are two supports — experience, which is the first parent of truth; and reason, which is the key to medical science. Experience comes first in order, and reason follows. Hence in medical affairs reasons which are not founded on experience have no value.


Fundamenta Medicianae, Physiology, Chapter I, 7 (p. 5), American Elsevier. 1971

Friedrich Hoffmann Quotes

In medicine there are two supports — experience, which is the first parent of truth; and reason, which is the key to medical science. Experience...

In medicine there are two supports — experience, which is the first parent of truth; and reason, which is the key to medical science. Experience...

In medicine there are two supports — experience, which is the first parent of truth; and reason, which is the key to medical science. Experience...

In medicine there are two supports — experience, which is the first parent of truth; and reason, which is the key to medical science. Experience...