Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
More Abraham Flexner Quotes
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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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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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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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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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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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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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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