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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

Abraham Flexner

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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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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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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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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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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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Choice Civilization Enough Nation Our Pay Rich
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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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 student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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Cared never Question Raised Utility
Unintelligence 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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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
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
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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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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