Clifford Allbutt Inspirational Quotes (7)

In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of human nature, as to his disillusion many a lawgiver has discovered.

Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.

It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is a mode of growth.

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes…If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses that we must look.