"The mind likes a strange idea as little……" — Wilfred Trotter
"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 be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science."
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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 fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
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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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