Harvey Cushing Quotes

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.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

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

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

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.

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