You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
More Abraham Flexner Quotes
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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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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 more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
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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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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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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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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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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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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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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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