Wilfred Trotter Quote

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'


'The Commemoration of Great Men', British Medical Journal 1932


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....

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....

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....

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....