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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.
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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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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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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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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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
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