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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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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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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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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
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You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
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Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
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The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
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Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
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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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It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.
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Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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Seek simplicity, then distrust.
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Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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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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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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