Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

  • -- William Osler 威廉·奥斯勒

变化是生命的法则,因为没有两张脸是一样的,所以没有两个人是一样的,没有两个人在我们所知的疾病的异常情况下反应和行为是一样的。

相关名言

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

在某种意义上,我们甚至可以说,我们的失败在于形成习惯:因为,习惯毕竟是相对于一个刻板的世界而言的,而使两个人、两件事、两种情况看起来相似的,只是眼睛的粗糙。

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don’t need to worry about anybody.

吉尔伯特和沙利文提出的原则是,当每个人都是重要人物时,没有人是任何人;如果每个人都不正常,我们不需要担心任何人。

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

突然的分辨率,就像气压计中汞的突然上升一样,只能表明天气的变化。

Living is abnormal.

生活是不正常的。