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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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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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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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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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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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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 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 world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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.
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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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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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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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