“Study until twenty-five investigation until forty profession until sixty at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.”

“TheSc ots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head heart and haggis.”

“It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.”

“The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget.”

“It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.”

“The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”

“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each...”

“Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.”

“We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues. ”