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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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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The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.
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Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.
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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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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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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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