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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

Abraham Flexner

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You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
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Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.
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Unintelligence could go no further! … In Great Britain, the situation is similar. … Until the figures are reversed, … nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history.
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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application
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Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients… it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound
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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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