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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 world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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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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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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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
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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Alike Cow Dark Look Mathematician
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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Country Further Gadflies Great Similar Situation Unintelligence
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
As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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Cared never Question Raised Utility
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
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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Act Dolve Math Motivational Problem Science
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
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
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

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