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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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 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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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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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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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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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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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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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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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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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 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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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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