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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.

Abraham Flexner

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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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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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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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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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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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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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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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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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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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We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions .
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Cared never Question Raised Utility

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