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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

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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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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.
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Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
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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 culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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The many become one and are increased by one.
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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
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