The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERAs 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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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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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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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 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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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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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 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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