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The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
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 future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
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The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
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I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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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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As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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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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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
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