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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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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Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.
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Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
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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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People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.
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