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

--

Source : Abraham Flexner (2017). “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”, p.52, Princeton University Press

Abraham Flexner

“May you find the courage to walk your own path. May you dare to venture into the uncharted domains of your own heart. Here is my advice to you, the adventurers - fear will show you the way; walk steadily toward it, for otherwise you will always be running. Have trust & faith to guide you like a torch piercing the darkness. Do not believe & do not deny, but find out for yourself - for there is no truth but the one you have earned in your own experience.”
“The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he does not live long enough to need to eat. The eggs the May fly leaves hatch after the parent has died. What is it all about. What's the point? There is no point. That's just the way it is. It is neither good nor bad. Life is mainly simply inevitable. (41)”
“There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.”
“Time may smooth the stone, but time will never wear it away.”
“A legend - now I am like a unicorn.”
“The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water”
“I want a strong man, but a gentle one. And, most unlikely of all, but most essential, I want a man with a capacity for love - to give it generously and accept it joyously. I also want somebody who, when I say, "Let's call it quits," won't hang on; who'll say, "All right, it was fun while it lasted. So long and good luck."”
“Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.”

You may also like:

Charles William Eliot
Poet
Clifford Geertz
Anthropologist
Daniel Coit Gilman
Esther Dyson
Journalist
Harvey Cushing
Neurosurgery
Hippocrates
Physician
John D. Rockefeller
Business person
Wilder Penfield
William Osler
Physician