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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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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
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The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.
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All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
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Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.
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Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
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