The Doctor's Dilemma Quotes

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma

“it’s always the patient who has to take the chance when an experiment is necessary. And we can find out nothing without experiment.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma

“Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. A wonderful operator but, after all, what is operating? . . . . Manual labour.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma

“Well, I've known over thirty men who've found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying of it, Colly? Devilment I suppose!”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma

“Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous. Ignorant faddists pick up some superficial information about germs; and they write to the papers and try to discredit science.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma