The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERYou have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
More Abraham Flexner Quotes
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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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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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Unintelligence could go no further! … In Great Britain, the situation is similar. … Until the figures are reversed, … nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.
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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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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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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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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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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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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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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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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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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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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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