Florence Nightingale Quotes about Science

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

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”

For the sick it is important to have the best.

Florence Nightingale

Science, Sick, Important

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

Florence Nightingale

God, Nursing, Science

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

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

Florence Nightingale

Lying, Science, Hygiene

Letter to Medical Officer of Health, November (1891)

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

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

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

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