The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERHe was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
More Abraham Flexner Quotes
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The more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
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The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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As to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex
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You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients… it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound
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No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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