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.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe 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.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERWe must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERUnintelligence 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.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERCuriosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
ABRAHAM FLEXNERScience, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERNations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERAs far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERInstitutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
ABRAHAM FLEXNERWe feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions .
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERWhich may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERAt no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERNo nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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