Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is “Prove all things and hold fast that which is good” and of the other “Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old.”
- William Osler
Osler, a Canadian physician and one of the founding professors of the John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, was playing on words from what was written in the bible, 1 Thessalonians 5:21: “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.“
















