Abraham Flexner - Universities: American, English, German (1930)

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

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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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