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The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
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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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.
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The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.
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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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Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.
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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 is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.
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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future.
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