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He is the best physician who knows how to distinguish the possible from the impossible.

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To lose one's health renders science null, art inglorious, strength effortless, wealth useless and eloquence powerless.

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Medicines are nothing in themselves, if not properly used, but the very hands of the gods, if employed with reason and prudence.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Herophilos

Born: 335 BC
Died: 280 BC (aged 55)
Bio: Herophilos, sometimes Latinised Herophilus, was a Greek physician deemed to be the first anatomist. Born in Chalcedon, he spent the majority of his life in Alexandria. He was the first scientist to systematically perform scientific dissections of human cadavers.

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