We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER
As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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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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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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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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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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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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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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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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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 world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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