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Value is coextensive with reality.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Theologian
Writer
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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
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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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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
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Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.
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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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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.
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By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.
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You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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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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