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It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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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Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
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One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.
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Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.
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The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.
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If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.
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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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There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
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