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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
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