There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

- Harvey Cushing

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

- Harvey Cushing

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by levelin…

- Harvey Cushing

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a spl…

- Harvey Cushing

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that no…

- Harvey Cushing

Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.

- Harvey Cushing

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

- Harvey Cushing

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

- Harvey Cushing