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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.
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Speak out in acts the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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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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The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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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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