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
ABRAHAM FLEXNERMathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
More Abraham Flexner Quotes
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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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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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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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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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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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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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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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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 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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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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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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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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