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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.

Abraham Flexner

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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