We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me. - Abraham Flexner
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 student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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 real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them. - Abraham Flexner
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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
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…
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
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…
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of… - Abraham Flexner
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of…
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
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…
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
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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