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

Abraham Flexner

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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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 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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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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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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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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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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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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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.
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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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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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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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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