Wilfred Trotter Quotes

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• 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 of…
• If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate…
• The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their…
• It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter…
• 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…
• The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not…
• An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen…
• It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more…
• The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only…
• The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
• The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power-to…
• 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 them…
• The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps…
• If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely…
• It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to…

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