The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
— Harvey Cushing
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.
— Harvey Cushing
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.
— Harvey Cushing
Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
— Harvey Cushing
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.
— Harvey Cushing
Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.
— Harvey Cushing
A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.
— Harvey Cushing
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.
— Harvey Cushing
American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer and draftsman.
— Harvey Cushing
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