Sir James Paget

“No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.”

“Let us learn to be lazy; for those who are never lazy are often fussy, and always dull.”

“Progress is not an accident, but a necessity... It is a part of nature.”

“Let us have a due reverence for the old, but let us not be afraid of the new.”

“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”

“Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden.”

“The formation of a good habit is the best economy of human force.”

“We must be reformers in our youth, if we would be conservatives in our age.”

“The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.”

“The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.”

“Work itself is a pleasure, but it is the fruit of labour that makes it so.”

“You will find that fatigue is a creation of the mind. You will learn to disregard it.”

“What is it that we are doing when we are learning? We are making memories.”

“He who has a 'why' to live for can bear almost any 'how'.”

“Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity.”