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 …

- Clifford Allbutt

Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicaci…

- Clifford Allbutt

Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise how little this is:…

- Clifford Allbutt

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…

- Clifford Allbutt

The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences o…

- Clifford Allbutt

It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is a mode of growth.

- Clifford Allbutt

Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nev…

- Clifford Allbutt

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

- Clifford Allbutt

I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes…If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses…

- Clifford Allbutt