The more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
ABRAHAM FLEXNERWe 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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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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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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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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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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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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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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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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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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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