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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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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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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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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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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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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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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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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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 or self-satisfied; they are, if sound
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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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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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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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