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.
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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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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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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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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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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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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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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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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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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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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