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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.
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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There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
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Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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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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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
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Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
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Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.
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I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
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