Abraham Flexner Quotes

As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

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.

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.

He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.

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.