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Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.

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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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.
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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''
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Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the self has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
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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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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 .
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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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There is no nature in an instant.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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