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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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 reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Routine is the god of every social system it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.
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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
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