Hippocrates - Opportunity Quotes

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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. However, knowing this, one must attend to medical practice not primarily to plausible theories, but to experience combined with reason. For a theory is a composite memory of things apprehended with sense perception.

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Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.

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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

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