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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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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Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
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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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Speak out in acts the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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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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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
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Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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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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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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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
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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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The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
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What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.
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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
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The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
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