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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
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Theologian
Writer
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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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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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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
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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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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
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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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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.
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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.
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In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
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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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The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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