By scientific, I do not mean the acquisition of the bare facts of science, but an understanding of its methods, a realisation of its meaning and an inoculation with its spirit...It is an attitude of mind, a sort of reflex, which at once on the presentation of a problem makes a man burn until its solution is accomplished. until he knows the status of the question among the investigators of the world.
The Reserves of Life. St. Mary's Hospital Gazette 1907;13:95-98.
From Osler by Charles Bryan 1997.
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