"The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm."
"People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe"
"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity."
"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."
"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity."
"Life is short, the art long."