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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…

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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…
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to…
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn…
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those…
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of…
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;…
An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number…
It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind.…
The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But…
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…
The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states…

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The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn… — Wilfred Trotter
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the… — Warren E. Burger
There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the… — Unknown Author
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an… — Benjamin Franklin
It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no… — Henry John Stephen Smith
The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the… — Robert Jastrow
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the… — Cynthia Ozick
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental… — Robert A. Heinlein
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any… — Elwyn Brooks White
...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss

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