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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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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Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
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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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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
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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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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
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The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.
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