Now, A Living Organism Is Nothing But

The Mental Never Influences The Physical. It Is Always The Physical That Modifies The Mental, And When We Think That The Mind Is Diseased, It Is Always An Illusion.

A Fact In Itself Is Nothing. It Is Valuable Only For The Idea Attached To It, Or For The Proof Which It Furnishes.

A Contemporary Poet Has Characterized This Sense Of The Personality Of Art And Of The Impersonality Of Science In These Words,-'art Is Myself; Science Is Ourselves. '

I Do Not ... Reject The Use Of Statistics In Medicine, But I Condemn Not Trying To Get Beyond Them And Believing In Statistics As The Foundation Of Medical Science. ... Statistics ... Apply Only To Cases In Which The Cause Of The Facts Observed Is Still [uncertain Or] Indeterminate. ... There Will Always Be Some Indeterminism ... In All The Sciences, And More In Medicine Than In Any Other. But Man's Intellectual Conquest Consists In Lessening And Driving Back Indeterminism In Proportion As He Gains Ground For Determinism By The Help Of The Experimental Method.

The Science Of Life Is A Superb And Dazzlingly Lighted Hall Which May Be Reached Only By Passing Through A Long And Ghastly Kitchen.