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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 aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
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Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
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People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.
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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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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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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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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
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Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
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Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.
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The motive of success is not enough.
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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
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