Abraham Flexner Quotes

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• Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay…
• 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…
• At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first…
• We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
• The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
• The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
• We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as…
• There are men that teach best by not teaching at all.
• You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
• 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…
• Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be…
• Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
• Probably, 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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