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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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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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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As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
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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 foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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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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Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
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Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things, without specifications of definite particular things.
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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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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
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Error itself may be happy chance.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.
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