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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
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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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The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
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The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.
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There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.
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