"The fundamental activity of medical science is to……" — Wilfred Trotter
"The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease."
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Wilfred Trotter
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15 Quotes by Wilfred Trotter
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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…
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If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will…
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The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served…
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It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank…
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The…
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The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be…
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An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between…
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It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the…
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The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet…
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The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question…
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The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist…
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The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar…
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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