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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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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I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.
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Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
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Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.
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War can protect it cannot create.
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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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Value is coextensive with reality.
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Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
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