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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.

Abraham Flexner

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 Deflected Devoted Institution Learning
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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Curiosity Restless Resulted Suspicion Utility
As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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Cared never Question Raised Utility
The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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Live Sense Testify World
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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Characteristic Curiosity Oustanding Passion Probably Thinking Useful
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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Borrowed Education Largely Money Nation Peace
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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Attitude Education Knowledge Recipients Skill Teaching
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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Collect Evaluate Fact Locked Patient Student
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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Accident Designed Established Institution Object Personnel Promote Sex
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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Choice Civilization Enough Nation Our Pay Rich
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
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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Billion Dollar Government Greater Permit Treaty United States War
Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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Become Indeed Intellectual Modern Passion Ruling Time
At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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Absorbed Career Curiosity Interested Period Science Unmatched
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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Empathy Extremist Keep Liberty Overlook Play Society
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 Play Role Science Self Society

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