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In science, all sorts of things present themselves and you watch them; the facts are tested, accepted, rejected, or set aside, and at last experiments are made following some apparently fruitful ideas.

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The success of a discovery depends upon the time of its appearance.

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Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.


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When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate,
And time seemed but the vassal of my will,
I entertained certain guests of state—
The great of older days.


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I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics.

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Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

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He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.

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The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's cheque-books.

Silas Weir Mitchell

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Silas Weir Mitchell

Silas Weir Mitchell
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Born: February 15, 1829
Died: January 4, 1914 (aged 84)
Bio: Silas Weir Mitchell was an American physician and writer known for his discovery of causalgia and erythromelalgia.
Known for:
  1. Grimm
  2. The Whole Ten Yards
  3. Rat Race
  4. A Fork in the Road
  5. Quicksilver Highway

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