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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.
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The many become one and are increased by one.
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The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
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Error itself may be happy chance.
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In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
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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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There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.
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Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
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There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
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Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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When success turns a man's head he faces failure
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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