Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERWe 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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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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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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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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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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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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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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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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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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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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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