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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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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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I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.
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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
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War can protect it cannot create.
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I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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