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

- Abraham Flexner

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

- Abraham Flexner

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

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…

- Abraham Flexner

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

- Abraham Flexner

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…

- Abraham Flexner

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

- Abraham Flexner

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

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…

- Abraham Flexner