But no, he has only taken his place in a great galaxy.

We do not forget the magnitude of his labors, but a new generation has new problems--his message was not for you--but that medicine today runs in larger moulds and turns out finer castings is due to his life and work.
It is one of the values of lectures on the history of medicine to keep alive the good influences of great men even after their positive teaching is antiquated.

Let no man be so foolish as to think that he has exhausted any subject for his generation.

Virchow was not happy when he saw the young men pour into the old bottle of cellular pathology the new wine of bacteriology.

Lister could never understand how aseptic surgery arose out of his work.