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There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
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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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
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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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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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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
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Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
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The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
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To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
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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 study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.
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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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