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One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
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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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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Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.
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Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
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You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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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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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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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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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.
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Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.
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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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