Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. … - Abraham Flexner

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In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare.

Abraham Flexner

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. . . no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

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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.

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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking. . . Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

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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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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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