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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. 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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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

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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.

Attitude, Attitudes, Education, Skills, Teaching

Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking. . . Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of 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.

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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.

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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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