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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
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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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
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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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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
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The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
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Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
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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 race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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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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Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
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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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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future.
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...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
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Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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