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. — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share
We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share
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… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share
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… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share
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 Flexner Copy Share
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings. — Abraham Flexner Copy Share
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient. — Abraham Flexner Copy Share
The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify. — Abraham Flexner Copy Share
At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share
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,… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share
