The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings..

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent..

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

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and e….

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

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 b….

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify..

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 f….

Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of….

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 endowed inst….

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..

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….

We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions a….

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend..

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient..

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all..