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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

Abraham Flexner

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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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Benefiting Medicine More Patient
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
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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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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Live Sense Testify World
Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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Become Indeed Intellectual Modern Passion Ruling Time
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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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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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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Extremist Gadflies Play Role Science Self Society
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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Choice Civilization Enough Nation Our Pay Rich
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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Contribute Equally Human Important More Satisfaction Welfare
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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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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Characteristic Curiosity Oustanding Passion Probably Thinking Useful

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