Herman Boerhaave Quotes

• The great seal of truth is simplicity.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Truth, Simplicity, Truth Is

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• The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Perseverance, Prayer, Mind

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• My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Charity, Pay, Patient

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• I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Blow, Thinking, Calumny Is

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• The surest method against scandal is live it down in well-doing.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Scandal, Method, Wells

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• A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy will you examine it with exacting pains. But rare are those among the extremely busy clinicians who are willing or capable of doing this correctly.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Pain, Doctors, Disease

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• For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from a number of experiments casually made, without any expectation of what follow'd; and was only reduced into an art or system, by collecting and comparing the effects of such unpremeditated experiments, and observing the uniform tendency thereof. So far, then, as a number of experimenters agree to establish any undoubted truth; so far they may be consider'd as constituting the theory of chemistry.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Art, Science, Numbers

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• Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Science, Animal, Law

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• It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war, which were unknown to the ancients, and have made such havoc among the moderns. But as men have always been bent on seeking each other's destruction by continual wars; and as force, when brought against us, can only be repelled by force; the chief support of war, must, after money, be now sought in chemistry.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Art, War, Mean

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