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It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
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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.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
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Seek simplicity, then distrust.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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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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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
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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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