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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.

Abraham Flexner

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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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Curiosity Restless Resulted Suspicion Utility
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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Empathy Extremist Keep Liberty Overlook Play Society
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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Characteristic Curiosity Oustanding Passion Probably Thinking Useful
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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Compliment Friend Honest Last Lost Meal True
At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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Absorbed Career Curiosity Interested Period Science Unmatched
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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Alike Cow Dark Look Mathematician
As to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex
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Accident Designed Established Institution Object Personnel Promote Sex
The more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
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Contribute Equally Human Important More Satisfaction Welfare
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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Billion Dollar Government Greater Permit Treaty United States War
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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Act Dolve Math Motivational Problem Science
We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions .
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America Characteristic Leaning Noblest Race Strongly
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
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Dare Enemy Human Man Mold Real Spirit Wing
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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Collect Evaluate Fact Locked Patient Student
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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Curiosity Deflected Devoted Institution Learning
The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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Discussion End Fundamentally Progress Spearhead Time Wrong
The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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Live Sense Testify World

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