--- title: "1 Corrections Quotes By Wilfred Trotter" description: "1 Corrections quotes by Wilfred Trotter. Plus more from Wilfred Trotter and more Corrections sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34c/wilfred-trotter-30944_air_the-air-of-caricature-never-fails-to-sho_702516.png" --- > [ The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. \[But\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-air-of-caricature-never-fails-to-show-itself-in-the-products-of/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34c/wilfred-trotter-30944_air_the-air-of-caricature-never-fails-to-sho_702516.png) ## Other authors on Corrections - [Israelmore Ayivor 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/corrections/israelmore-ayivor/) ## More by Wilfred Trotter > [ The first \[quality\] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-first-quality-to-be-named-must-always-be-the-power-of-attention/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) > [If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/if-mankind-is-to-profit-freely-from-the-small-and-sporadic-crop-of/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) > [Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/disease-often-tells-its-secrets-in-a-casual-parenthesis/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) > [The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-air-of-caricature-never-fails-to-show-itself-in-the-products-of/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) > [“The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-mind-likes-a-strange-idea-as-little-as-the-body-likes-a-strange/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) > [The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-mind-likes-a-strange-idea-as-little-as-the-body-likes-a-strange-2/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) > [The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-dispassionate-intellect-the-open-mind-the-unprejudiced-observer/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) > [If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/if-we-watch-ourselves-honestly-we-shall-often-find-that-we-have-begun/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) > [It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/it-is-necessary-to-guard-ourselves-from-thinking-that-the-practice-of/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) > [The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-truly-scientific-mind-is-altogether-unafraid-of-the-new-and-while/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) > [It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/it-is-sometimes-asserted-that-a-surgical-operation-is-or-should-be-a/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) > [It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/it-was-not-noisy-prejudice-that-caused-the-work-of-mendel-to-lie-dead/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) > [The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-second-thing-to-be-striven-for-is-intuition-this-sounds-an/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) > [The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-fundamental-activity-of-medical-science-is-to-determine-the/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) > [The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-ordinary-patient-goes-to-his-doctor-because-he-is-in-pain-or-some/) [Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/corrections/wilfred-trotter/#itemlist", "name": "1 Corrections Quotes By Wilfred Trotter", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. 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