"Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients."

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Siddhartha Mukherjee

#Self Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Physicians Quotes

“One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that events which are individually capricious and unpredictable can, when treated en masse, lead to very stable average performances.”

Source : Warren Weaver (2012). “Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability”, p.361, Courier Corporation
“A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.”
“Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.”
“Love is not love if there is no beloved.”
“There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot of pleasure or even joy in working with those alternatives and also it's made me so much more aware of just how much work we can make those sources of supply do for us, whether it's electricity or fossil fuels.”

Source : Source: williamlittlesociology.wordpress.com
“The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.”
“A â€˜liberal paradiseâ€™ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... Itâ€™s called prison.”
“and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.”

Source : Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.200, Penguin

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