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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
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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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
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The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
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Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
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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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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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A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
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Seek simplicity, then distrust.
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The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
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The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.
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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
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