Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERInstitutions 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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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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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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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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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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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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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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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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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to 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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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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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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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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