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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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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Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.
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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
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...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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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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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
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