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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.
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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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The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.
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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
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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 future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
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The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
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In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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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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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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