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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

Abraham Flexner

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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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Billion Dollar Government Greater Permit Treaty United States War
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
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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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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Curiosity Restless Resulted Suspicion Utility
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
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
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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America Characteristic Leaning Noblest Race Strongly
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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Alike Cow Dark Look Mathematician
The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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Discussion End Fundamentally Progress Spearhead Time Wrong
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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Curiosity Deflected Devoted Institution Learning
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
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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Collect Evaluate Fact Locked Patient Student
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
There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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Best Knowledge Man Teacher Teaching
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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Borrowed Education Largely Money Nation Peace
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

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