Clarence Darrow –
US lawyer
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents,
and the second half by our children.
Attributed
Charles Darwin –
British naturalist and author
Science consists in grouping facts so that general
laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.
Charles DarwinCh. by Francis Darwin
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to
me, that man with all his noble qualities, still
bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his
lowly origin.
Descent of ManCh. , Appleton, New York ()
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of
science, for they often endure long; but false
views, if supported by some evidence, do little
harm, for every one takes salutary pleasure
proving their falseness.
Descent of ManCh. , Appleton, New York ()
I have called this principle, by which each slight
variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of
Natural Selection.
Origin of SpeciesCh. , Appleton, New York ()
Life was originally from so simple a beginning
(that) endless forms most beautiful and most
wonderful have been and are being evolved.
Origin of SpeciesCh. , Appleton, New York ()
Vivisection is justifiable for real investigations
on physiology; but not for mere damnable and
detestable curiosity.
Letter, March ()
I must begin with a good body of facts and not
from a principle (in which I always suspect some
fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.
Letter to J. Fiske, December ()
Sir Francis Darwin –
British scientist
But in science the credit goes to the man who
convinces the world, not to the man to whom
the idea first occurs.
Eugenics Review : ()
W. H. Davies –
British poet
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of
men that drink.
Shorter Lyrics of the th Century, Introduction
Elmer Davis –
US journalist
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of
weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the
truth.
On not being Dead, as Reported
Professor John Davis
Contemporary British anaesthetist
You are more likely to die on the first day of your
life than on any other than your last.
The Anaesthetic Aide-Mémoire
John Urquhart. Oxford University Press, Oxford ()Kingsley Davis
Contemporary US sociologist
When one contemplates procreation as a future
act, it is always someone else who is going to be
created; but when one contemplates death, it is
one’s own extinction that is involved.
Human SocietyThe Macmillan Company ()Sir Humphry Davy –
English chemist and discoverer of anaesthesia
I have this day made a discovery, which, if you
please, you may announce in your Physical
Journal, namely that the nitrous phosoxyd or
gaseous oxyd of azote, is respirable when perfectly
freed from nitric phosoxyd (nitrous gas).
Letter to Nicholson’s Journal, April ()John Blair Deaver –
US Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania
Cut well, get well, stay well.
Quoted by Marvin Corman in Classic articles in colonic and
rectal surgery. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum: –
()Daniel Defoe –
English writer
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the
highest extreme.
An Essay Upon projects‘Of Projectors’
Middle age is youth without its levity, and age
without decay.
AttributedMervyn Deitel ?–
Professor of Surgery and of Nutritional Sciences at the
University of Toronto
The commonest form of malnutrition in the
western world is obesity.
Surgery of the Morbidly Obese PatientPreface. Lee and
Febiger, Philadelphia ()Thomas Dekker –
English dramatist
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.
Westward Hoe!Act V ()Jean Baptiste de la Salle –
The ears should be kept perfectly clean; but it
must never be done in company. It should never be
done with a pin, and still less with the fingers, but
always with an ear-picker.
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