Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. – William Osler
Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert. – William Osler
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle. – William Osler
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. – William Osler
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. – James McGreevey