5 Quotes by Sir William Osler

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public... Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in you humdrum routine, the true poetry of life - the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary person, of the plain, toilworn, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and griefs.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.