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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.

Abraham Flexner

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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 far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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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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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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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 more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
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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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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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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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