Quotes by 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.