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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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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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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.
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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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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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If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
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Value is coextensive with reality.
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The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
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