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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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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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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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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
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The motive of success is not enough.
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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