The more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
ABRAHAM FLEXNER
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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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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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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 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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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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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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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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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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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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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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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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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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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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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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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