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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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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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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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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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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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