It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That prop…

- 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 uselessn…

- Wilfred Trotter

The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only in…

- 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-…

- Wilfred Trotter

The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical f…

- Wilfred Trotter

The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

- Wilfred Trotter

The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not in pursuit of the…

- Wilfred Trotter

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguis…

- 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 …

- Wilfred Trotter