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, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient. — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify. — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
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 Image
![“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 first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility…” quote by Abraham Flexner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/127/abraham-flexner-29762_careers_at-no-period-of-michael-faraday-s-unmatc_2311712.jpg)