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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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 worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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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.
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Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.
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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
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The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
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The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
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The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
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I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
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It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.
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