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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
Mathematician
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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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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The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
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The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
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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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Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
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You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
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Speak out in acts the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.
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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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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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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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