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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

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
Theologian
Writer
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Knowledge
Shrinks
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Seek simplicity, then distrust.
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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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What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
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One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
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The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
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The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.
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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
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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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Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
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