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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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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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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.
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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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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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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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