Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English surgeon Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, was an English physiologist and surgeon who pioneered research into bone and joint disease.

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement. — © Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.
Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow.
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in science.-It was that led Newton to the invention of fluxions, and the discovery of gravitation, and Harvey to find out the circulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of modern chemistry.
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