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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.

Abraham Flexner

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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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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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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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Compliment Friend Honest Last Lost Meal True
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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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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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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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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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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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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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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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

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