"Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality."

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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