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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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The many become one and are increased by one.
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There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.
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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
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[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
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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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An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.
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