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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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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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We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
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Speak out in acts the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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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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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
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But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat. Process and Reality
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
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