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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 for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
— Abraham Flexner
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
— Abraham Flexner
Tags: enough, choice, rich, war
Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by considerations of immediacy and application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
— Abraham Flexner The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Tags: science, knowledge, education, arts-and-humanities
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