You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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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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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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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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, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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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.
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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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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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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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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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