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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
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