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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
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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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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
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Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
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By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.
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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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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.
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The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
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