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Science Quotes by 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 more…
- 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…
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