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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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It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''
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Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
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