be useful to
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If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.
Ask for a science that would be useful to you, would keep you from harm and shame, then elevate you.
Do not spit into a well-it may be useful to drink water.