William Osler

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public... Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick.

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.