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Routine is the god of every social system it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.
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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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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Error itself may be happy chance.
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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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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
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Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
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