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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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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
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Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
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Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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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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Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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