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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.

Abraham Flexner

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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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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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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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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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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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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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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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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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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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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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