black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

Abraham Flexner

Related Topics

Discussion End Fundamentally Progress Spearhead Time Wrong

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Act Dolve Math Motivational Problem Science
The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Live Sense Testify World
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Collect Evaluate Fact Locked Patient Student
Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Become Indeed Intellectual Modern Passion Ruling Time
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
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Extremist Gadflies Play Role Science Self Society
The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Discussion End Fundamentally Progress Spearhead Time Wrong
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.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Curiosity Restless Resulted Suspicion Utility
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Empathy Extremist Keep Liberty Overlook Play Society
No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Choice Civilization Enough Nation Our Pay Rich
At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Absorbed Career Curiosity Interested Period Science Unmatched
As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Cared never Question Raised Utility
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Borrowed Education Largely Money Nation Peace
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

Benefiting Medicine More Patient
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Alike Cow Dark Look Mathematician
He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Assorted Chemical Disentangling Period Physical Riddle Universe
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Dare Enemy Human Man Mold Real Spirit Wing

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes