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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
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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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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