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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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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
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There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.
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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
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Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
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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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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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Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.
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Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
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Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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