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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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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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Error itself may be happy chance.
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Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
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Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.
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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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Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
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There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.
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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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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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Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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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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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.
Alfred North Whitehead
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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