"We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?"

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William Osler

#Believe Quotes #Simple Quotes #Years Quotes

“I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.”
“Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.”
“Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.”
“Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are....”
“A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.”

Source : "Open Letter to President Wilson". Book by Ben Salmon, October 14, 1919.
“I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, itâ€™s true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isnâ€™t all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. Iâ€™d like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.52, Macmillan
“I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.”
“From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.”

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