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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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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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The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
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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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An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
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The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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There is no nature in an instant.
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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
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If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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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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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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