He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERWhich may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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 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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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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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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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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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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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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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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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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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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