{"author":"Abraham Flexner","author_id":"Abraham+Flexner","total_quotes":3,"quotes":[{"text":"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 institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... Nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.","author":"Abraham Flexner","tags":["education","great-britain","learning","military","military-funding","naval-treaty","priorities","teaching","unintelligence","war","warships"],"id":13589,"author_id":"Abraham+Flexner"},{"text":"The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.","author":"Abraham Flexner","tags":["medicine","sickness"],"id":219980,"author_id":"Abraham+Flexner"},{"text":"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 sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.","author":"Abraham Flexner","tags":["complacency","evidence","extremists","free-discussion","freedom-of-speech","fundamentalists","progress","religious-extremists","religious-fundamentalists","society"],"id":478296,"author_id":"Abraham+Flexner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}