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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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But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
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Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
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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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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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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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Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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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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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.
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