Wilfred Trotter Quotes

• 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

  Verdad, Ciencia, Ideas

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• 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 to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Ideas, Mind

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• If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Ideas, Watches

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• It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more flatly contradicted by experience than the belief that a man distinguished in one or even more departments of science, is more likely to think sensibly about ordinary affairs than anyone else.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Men, Thinking, Practice

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• The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Emotional, Effort

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• 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 distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Lying, Hard Work, Ideas

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• 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 interference from experience stored and not actively recalled.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Intuition, Sound, Aptitude

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• If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Art, Freedom, Hero

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• El paciente ordinario acude al médico porque siente dolor o alguna otra molestia y quiere volver a sentirse cómodo; no persigue el ideal de la salud en ningún sentido directo. El médico, en cambio, quiere descubrir el estado patológico y controlarlo si puede. Por lo tanto, los dos están en cierto grado en propósitos opuestos desde el principio, y a menos que el asunto se lleve a una conclusión temprana y feliz, esta desviación de objetivos es probable que se vuelva más y más grave a medida que avanza el caso.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Dolor, Salud, Ciencia

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• 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.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Men, Hands

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

  Wilfred Trotter

  Fundamentals, Medical Science, Disease

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• Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Secret, Disease, Casual

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• An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Numbers, Perception

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• La primera [cualidad] que hay que nombrar debe ser siempre el poder de atención, de dedicar toda la mente al paciente sin interponer nada propio. Parece sencillo, pero sólo los mejores médicos lo consiguen plenamente. ... El segundo objetivo es la intuición. Parece imposible, porque ¿quién puede controlar ese pequeño monitor silencioso? Pero la intuición es sólo una interferencia de la experiencia almacenada y no recordada activamente. ... La última aptitud que mencionaré que debe alcanzar el buen médico es la de manejar la mente del enfermo.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Simple, Greatness

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• El aire de caricatura nunca deja de mostrarse en los productos de la razón aplicada implacablemente y sin corrección. La observación de los hechos clínicos parecería ser una búsqueda del médico tan inofensiva como indispensable. [Pero] a ciertas mentes les pareció irresistiblemente racional que las enfermedades fueran tan clasificables como los escarabajos y las mariposas. Esta doctrina... dio quizás sus frutos más ricos en las manos de Boissier de Sauvauges. En su Nosologia Methodica, publicada en 1768, este Linneo de cabecera agrupó las enfermedades en diez clases, 295 géneros y 2.400 especies.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Butterfly, Air, Hands

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• 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 proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Art, Science, Thinking

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