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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .

Abraham Flexner

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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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Contribute Equally Human Important More Satisfaction Welfare
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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Borrowed Education Largely Money Nation Peace
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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Billion Dollar Government Greater Permit Treaty United States War
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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Choice Civilization Enough Nation Our Pay Rich
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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Accident Designed Established Institution Object Personnel Promote Sex
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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Collect Evaluate Fact Locked Patient Student
The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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Discussion End Fundamentally Progress Spearhead Time Wrong
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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Empathy Extremist Keep Liberty Overlook Play Society
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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Benefiting Medicine More Patient
Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients… it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.
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Attitude Education Knowledge Recipients Skill Teaching
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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Curiosity Restless Resulted Suspicion Utility
At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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Absorbed Career Curiosity Interested Period Science Unmatched
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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Country Further Gadflies Great Similar Situation Unintelligence
He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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Assorted Chemical Disentangling Period Physical Riddle Universe
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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Alike Cow Dark Look Mathematician
As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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Cared never Question Raised Utility

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