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
ABRAHAM FLEXNERCuriosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
More Abraham Flexner Quotes
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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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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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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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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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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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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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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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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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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