It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind.… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
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… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
“The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
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… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
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