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 real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
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 or self-satisfied; they are, if sound
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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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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 must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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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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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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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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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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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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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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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