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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'

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

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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 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.

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

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Wilfred Trotter

Wilfred Trotter
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Born: November 3, 1872
Died: November 25, 1939 (aged 67)
Bio: Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter was a British surgeon, a pioneer in neurosurgery.

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