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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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Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
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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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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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Value is coextensive with reality.
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