"The various systems of doctrine that have held……" — Wilfred Trotter
"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 name only a few-as Aquinas and Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel. The incompatibility with one another of all the great systems of doctrine might surely be have expected to provoke some curiosity about their nature."
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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 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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