Wilfred Trotter Quotes

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It is the function of notions in science to be useful, to be interesting, to be verifiable and to acquire value from any one of these qualities. Scientific notions have little to gain as science from being forced into relation with that formidable abstraction, 'general truth'

Wilfred Trotter

Mr. Anesthetist, if the patient can keep awake, surely you can.

Wilfred Trotter

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 uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain.

Wilfred Trotter

Knowledge comes from noticing resemblances and recurrences in the events that happen around us.

Wilfred Trotter