"There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient."

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Source : Oliver Sacks (2013). “Migraine”, p.309, Vintage

Oliver Sacks

#Medicine Quotes #Patient Quotes #Cardinals Quotes

“I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.”
“The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives”
“Explorers have to be ready to die lost.”
“Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.”
“Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”
“Let your work speak for you.Stay humble.And just DO the work.”
“Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3Â°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2Â°C warmer than today), Antarctica had far less ice and sea levels were a stunning 25 meters higher than today. If we stay on our current emissions path, the planet will almost certainly be that warm by the century's end.”
“Have the passion and the magic will happen”

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