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Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
(20 Jul 1836 - 22 Feb 1925)
English physician who invented the short clinical thermometer (1866).
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Science Quotes by Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (7 quotes)
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.
— Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
Attributed. Peter McDonald, In The Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations (2004), 2.
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.
— Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
Attributed. Peter McDonald, In The Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations (2004), 2.
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.
— Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
In Fielding Hudson Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine (1929), 15.
Lister saw the vast importance of the discoveries of Pasteur. He saw it because he was watching on the heights, and he was watching there alone.
— Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
Baron Joseph Lister', The Encyclopædia Britannica (1911), 778.
Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless.
— Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
In Fielding Hudson Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine (1929), 16.
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.
— Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
On Professional Education with Special Reference to Medicine (), 78.
We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.
— Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
The Significance of Skin Affections in the Classification of Disease', St. Georges Hospital Reports (1867), Vol. 2, 189.
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At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
