"Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity and the less they are deflected by considerations 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."

Very smart guy. I bought the print copy of this essay here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174761/th...