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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
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 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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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.
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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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One and one make two assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.
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The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
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Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
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