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1.A real surgeon reads a book on a flight——not a laptop.
—— Moshe Schein
【译文】真正的外科医生在飞机上看书——而不是看笔记本电脑。
【点评】现在都改看手机了。
2.It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but it is not astonishing how badly he may do it.
—— William Osler, 1849——1919
【译文】阅读量如此少的一位医生也能行医，实在令人吃惊，他做得如此糟糕倒也就不足为奇了。
3.How much better it is to have the walls covered with books with which we are establishing friendly relations, than with pictures of passing interest which we have happened to obtain.Eventually pictures may lose their interest, whereas books never lose their fascination.
—— William J.Mayo, 1861——1939
【译文】几面墙都堆满了我们正在与之建立友好关系的书，比挂满我们曾经有兴趣，碰巧得到的那些画要好得多，画终将失去其兴趣，而书籍永远不会失去它们的魅力。
【点评】不要为了强调书的永久魅力而贬损画的审美与情感价值，两者分属于不同的精神载体。
4.Textbooks of a previous generation were as large as the textbooks of today,but contained a different body of misinformation.
—— Mark M.Ravitch, 1910——1989
【译文】 上一代的教科书和今天的一样大，只是包含的错误信息不同而已。
【点评】不足为奇，教科书总是落后于知识更新速度的。
5.There is a vast amount of ...worthless material in the literature of medicine ...nine-tenths, at least, of it becomes worthless, and of no interest within 10 years after the date of its publication, and much of it so when it first appears.
—— John Shaw Billings, 1838——1913
【译文】医学文献中有大量的毫无价值的资料……至少九成在其发表之日后的10年内逐步变得没有价值，让人失去兴趣，甚至有不少东西在其首次面世时就这样。
【点评】当今，这一现象是越来越突出。据称医学知识的倍增速度是：20世纪50年代每50年、20世纪80年代每7年、2020年每73天增加1倍。(https://www.daowen.com)
6.But to become distinguished, nay, to become even respectable in your profession, you must be something more than readers, you must become active thinkers and sifters of knowledge, learn, as Bacon counsels, to weigh and consider books.
—— Jacob M.Da Costa, 1833——1900
【译文】要想在你的职业中出类拔萃，甚至受人尊敬，除了阅读以外，你还必须是积极的思考者和知识的筛选者。就像培根所说，要学会权衡和思考所读之书。
【点评】尤其是在信息大爆炸的当下，权衡和筛选对我们有用的信息格外重要。
7.If you would read more you would invent and discover less.
—— Karl Sternberg
【译文】读书越多，发明和发现就越少。
【点评】此处所指一定是那些自说自话的所谓“新发现”“新发明”。真正的“发现和发明”应该是读书越多、思考越多，发明和发现就越多。
8.A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.I must soon lay it down,and commence living on its hint.What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
—— Henry David Thoreau
【译文】一本真正的好书能教我很多，而不仅仅是阅读。我一定会马上放下书本，开始按照书中所说的去做。始于阅读，终于行动。
【点评】阅读的目的是学以致用，不是为阅读而阅读。
9.Reading papers is not the purpose of showing how much we know and what we are doing but is an opportunity to learn.
—— William J.Mayo, 1861——1939
【译文】阅读论文不是为了炫耀我们知道多少、在做何事，而是一次学习的机会。
10.It is extremely difficult for a physician who puts too much trust in what he reads to form a proper decision from what he sees.
—— Andrew Boorde, 1490——1549
【译文】很难让一个过于迷信书本的医生能根据其所看到的做出正确的决定。
【点评】尽信书不如无书。