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In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
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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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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Value is coextensive with reality.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
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Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
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Error itself may be happy chance.
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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.
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A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world
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I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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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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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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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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No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
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