Harvey Cushing Quotes

United States, Neurosurgeon
April 8, 1869 – October, 7, 1939.

Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease. He wrote a biography of William Osler in three volumes. Together with Ernest Sachs, he is known as the Father of Neurosurgery.

Also known as Pathologist, Writer

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
- Work
- Surgeon
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
- World
- Man
- Physician

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
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.

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
A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

Harvey Cushing
- Greatness
- Excessiveness
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
- Enthusiasm
- Carries