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With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.
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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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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Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.
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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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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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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 main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
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You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.
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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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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.
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Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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