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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

Abraham Flexner

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Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients… it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.
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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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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 more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
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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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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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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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Empathy Extremist Keep Liberty Overlook Play Society
The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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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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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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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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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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