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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.
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The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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