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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts but until this has occurred, words do not count.
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
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Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
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You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.
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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
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All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
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