Joseph Lister

“If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then I am sure that I am fitted for it.”

“Next to the promulgation of the truth, the best thing I can conceive that a man can do is the public recantation of an error.”

“I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.”

“As time is an element in the causation of all organic changes, so it is an element in their cure.”

“The skin cannot be considered a perfect covering to the living body, as has been hitherto supposed.”

“It is our proud office to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and our path, if rightly followed, will be guided by unfettered truth and love unfeigned.”

“If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired.”