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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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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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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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When success turns a man's head he faces failure
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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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The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
Alfred North Whitehead
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
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People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future.
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
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Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
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In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
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