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Error is the price we pay for progress.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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Philosopher
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
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The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
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...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
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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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Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the self has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
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Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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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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By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
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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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