Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: McDonald , Peter (2004-09-16), Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations, Oxford University Press, USA, Retrieved on 2011-09-01
Folksonomies: medicine quotes medical Memes
01 SEP 2011
The Patient is a Besieged City
The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. 1 
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notesA good metaphor from Alexander of Tralles.
03 SEP 2011
We Error in Believing What We See, and Seeing What We Bel...
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. Folksonomies: empiricism bias
Folksonomies: empiricism bias
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notesQuote from Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt.
03 SEP 2011
Science Laws are Intrinsic, Not Heirarchical
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. 
2 A quote from Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt about the emergent nature of scientific laws, which are not imposed from an authority, but come from within nature.
