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.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERYou 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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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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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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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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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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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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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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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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 far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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 world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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