“ The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
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“ Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
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“ Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
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“ Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas! Sir William Osler. ”
- Sir William Osler.- Copy
“ [Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind. ”
- Sir William Bragg- Copy
“ I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is important to them as scientists; the best research is wasted when it is extremely difficult to discover what it is all about ... It is even more important when scientists are called upon to play their part in the world of affairs, as is happening to an increasing extent. ”
- Sir William Bragg- Copy
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“ The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them ”
- Sir William Lawrence Bragg- Copy
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“ [Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind. ”
- Sir William Bragg- Copy
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“ He who binds to himself a joy, does the winged life destroy: But he who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity's sun rise. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. ”
- Sir William Blackstone- Copy
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“ Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave. ”
- Sir William Drummond- Copy
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“ Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
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“ The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
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“ When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
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“ The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights, fulfills a man's ego like an automobile. ”
- Sir William- Copy
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“ I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. ”
- Sir William Blackstone- Copy
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“ The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
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“ Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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