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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

Abraham Flexner

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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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Extremist Gadflies Play Role Science Self Society
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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Accident Designed Established Institution Object Personnel Promote Sex
The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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Discussion End Fundamentally Progress Spearhead Time Wrong
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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Curiosity Restless Resulted Suspicion Utility
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
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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Benefiting Medicine More Patient
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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Act Dolve Math Motivational Problem Science
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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Borrowed Education Largely Money Nation Peace
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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Billion Dollar Government Greater Permit Treaty United States War
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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Alike Cow Dark Look Mathematician
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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America Characteristic Leaning Noblest Race Strongly
As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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Cared never Question Raised Utility
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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Curiosity Deflected Devoted Institution Learning
Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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Become Indeed Intellectual Modern Passion Ruling Time
The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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Live Sense Testify World
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

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