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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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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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Characteristic Curiosity Oustanding Passion Probably Thinking Useful
As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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Cared never Question Raised Utility
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 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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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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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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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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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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Assorted Chemical Disentangling Period Physical Riddle Universe
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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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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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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Absorbed Career Curiosity Interested Period Science Unmatched
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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Contribute Equally Human Important More Satisfaction Welfare
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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Choice Civilization Enough Nation Our Pay Rich
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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