He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERWe must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
More Abraham Flexner Quotes
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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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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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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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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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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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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 or self-satisfied; they are, if sound
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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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