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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.
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Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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War can protect it cannot create.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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Value is coextensive with reality.
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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