No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
More Abraham Flexner Quotes
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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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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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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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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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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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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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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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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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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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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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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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