Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application
ABRAHAM FLEXNERInstitutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application
More Abraham Flexner Quotes
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history.
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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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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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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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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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Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.
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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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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions .
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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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