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The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
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 its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.
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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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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows 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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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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