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Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
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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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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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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In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.
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One and one make two assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.
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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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There is no nature in an instant.
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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