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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.

Abraham Flexner

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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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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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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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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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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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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