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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
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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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.
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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 guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
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It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
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