We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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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 new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history.
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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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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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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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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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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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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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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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