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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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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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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
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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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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
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