He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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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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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 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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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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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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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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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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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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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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