“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.” MindLittlesIdeasBodyScienceEnergyActingKnownStrangeScientistLikesNew IdeasScience And ReligionProteinScience Religion Author:Wilfred Trotter
“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.” IfsHas BeensIdeasScienceWatchesScientistArguingHonestlyNew IdeasScience And ReligionScience ReligionScientific TruthQuestioning Beliefs Author: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 distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.” YearsIdeasLyingOpinionHard WorkPrejudiceContemporaryNoiseThirtyNonsenseNew IdeasSheerInabilityThirty YearsNoisyMendel Author:Wilfred Trotter
“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.” IfsArtIdeasReasonAbleFreedomPsychologyInfluenceMankindProduceHeroProfitObstaclesOccasionsReasonableSanityDelicateSkepticismNew IdeasDisguiseGiftedAssuranceCautionCropsInfluentialFreedom Of ThoughtSporadic Author: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.” MindMayIdeasMomentsHappensTruthScienceTurnsAttentionMercyCoreFriendlyConceptionUsefulnessGrudgeUnfamiliarUnafraidUselessness Author:Wilfred Trotter
