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Error itself may be happy chance.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
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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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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
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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 foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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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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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
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Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.
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I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
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The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.
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