The more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
ABRAHAM FLEXNERAt no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERWe 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
ABRAHAM FLEXNERScience, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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 .
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERCuriosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
ABRAHAM FLEXNERAny 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.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERAs far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERA 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.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERWhich may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERInstitutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application
ABRAHAM FLEXNERUnintelligence 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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