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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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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
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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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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world
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The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
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Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
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The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
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