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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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If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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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 justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.
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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
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The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
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Speak out in acts the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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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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In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
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Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.
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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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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
Alfred North Whitehead
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
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