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
ABRAHAM FLEXNER
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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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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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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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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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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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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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 student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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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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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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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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