Florence Nightingale Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

  Florence Nightingale

  Life, Art, Hard Work

• I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Science, Thinking

  Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale (1930). “Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England”

• The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

  Florence Nightingale

  Lying, Science, Hygiene

  Letter to Medical Officer of Health, November (1891)

• The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.

  Florence Nightingale

  Science, Two, Medicine

• When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

  Florence Nightingale

  Coffee, Science, Sick

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not”, p.76

• To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

  Florence Nightingale

  God, Nursing, Science

• For the sick it is important to have the best.

  Florence Nightingale

  Science, Sick, Important

• Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited-though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air-of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Science, Breathing

  Florence Nightingale (1876). “Notes on Nursing for the labouring classes. With a chapter on Children”, p.68

• It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

  Florence Nightingale

  Hurt, Health, Dark

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.103, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

• People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Recovery, Mean

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not”, p.59

• Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

  Florence Nightingale

  Death, Science, Average

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.100, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.

  Florence Nightingale

  God, Religious, Character

• Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

  Florence Nightingale

  Science, Average, Data

  Florence Nightingale (1859). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.69

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