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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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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 or self-satisfied; they are, if sound
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Extremist Gadflies Self
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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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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Restless Resulted Suspicion Utility
The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

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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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Discussion End Fundamentally Spearhead
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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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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Further Gadflies Similar Unintelligence
The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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Testify
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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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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Benefiting Medicine More Patient
As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.

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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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Cared never Raised Utility
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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Our
Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

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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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Become Indeed Modern Ruling
There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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Best
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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Dolve Math
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 more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
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Equally More Welfare
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.

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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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Borrowed Largely
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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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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Deflected Devoted Institution
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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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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Recipients
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .

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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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Characteristic Oustanding Probably Useful

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