“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
“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 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 ideal of health in any direct sense. The doctor on the other hand wants to discover the pathological condition and control it if he can. The two are thus to some degree at cross purposes from the first, and unless the affair is brought to an early and happy conclusion this diversion of aims is likely to become more and more serious as the case goes on.” IfsWantFirstsTwoHandsPainSciencePurposeCasesConditionsSeriousHealthGoes OnDegreesComfortableOrdinaryIdealsCrossesDirectDoctorsAimPatientAffairPursuitConclusionDiscomfortDiversion Author:Wilfred Trotter
