The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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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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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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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 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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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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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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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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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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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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