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Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
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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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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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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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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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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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
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There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.
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When success turns a man's head he faces failure
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.
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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
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Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
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