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Expensive Education

 

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance
 

**Derek Bok**
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Limits of Genius

 

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
 

**Albert Einstein**
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Remember…

 

Remember how much you do not know. Do not pour strange medicines into your patients.
 

**Sir William Osler**
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Simply Complicated

 

Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

 
 

**Charles Mingus**
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The Rest is Commentary

 

What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Go and learn it. -
 

**Rabbi Hillel, Talmud, Shabbath 31a**
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Uncertainty

 

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability
 

**Sir William Osler**
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Perfect Cure

 

All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time, except those whom it does not help, who all die. Therefore, it is obvious that it fails only in incurable cases
 

**Galen 2nd Century**
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Great Teacher

 

A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not to dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.
 

**Herbie Hancock**
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Easier to Write Upon a Disease

 

It is much easier to write
upon a disease
than upon a remedy.

The former is in the hands of Nature.
Ad a faithful observer with
an eye of tolerable judgement
cannot fail to delineate a likeness.

He latter will ever be subject
to the whim,
the inaccuracies and
the blunder
of mankind
 

**William Withering 1741-1799**
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Kill you or Cure you

 

Medicine hath that virtue, that it never leaveth a man in that state wherein it findeth him; it makes a sick man whole but a whole man sick. (1604)
 

**King James I**
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