At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERYou have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
More Abraham Flexner Quotes
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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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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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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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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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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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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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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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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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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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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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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 student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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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