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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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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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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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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