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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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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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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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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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 spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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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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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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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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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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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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