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.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERNo nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
More Abraham Flexner Quotes
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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 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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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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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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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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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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