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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
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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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
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The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.
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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
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Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.
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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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