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Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
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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In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.
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It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
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But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat. Process and Reality
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
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Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
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It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts but until this has occurred, words do not count.
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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
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Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
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I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
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The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.
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The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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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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Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
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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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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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