We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThere are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
More Abraham Flexner Quotes
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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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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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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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 spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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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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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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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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