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Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.
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 factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
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The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.
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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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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
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In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
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Value is coextensive with reality.
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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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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