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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
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Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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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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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
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The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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