William Gull Quotes

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The study of Medicine is an object lesson; the object, man's body in health and disease.

William Gull
A word rightly imposed is a landmark indicating so much recovered from the region of ignorance; a step in progress.

William Gull
Science and common sense differ as cultivated fruits differ from wild fruits. Science sows its seeds of inquiry, and gathers the fruit. Common sense picks the fruit, such as it, is by the wayside. Common sense has no fields or orchards of knowledge.

William Gull
What we call health, which looks so fixed and stable, is more changeable than the stability of the rainbow.

William Gull
When one undertakes to show the way, he should know something of the path.

William Gull
Realize, if you can, what a paralyzing influence on all scientific inquiry the ancient belief must have had which attributed the operations of nature to the caprice not of one divinity only, but of many. There still remains vestiges of this in most of our minds, and the more distinct in proportion to our weakness and ignorance.

William Gull
Do not explain Nature, but by patient attention to the facts let her explain herself.

William Gull
The greatest advance that can be made in practical Science is to a full and intimate recognition of our ignorance.

William Gull
There are many good general practitioners, there is only one good universal practitioner — "a warm bed."

William Gull