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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.
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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With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.
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The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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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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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.
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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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