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Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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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The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.
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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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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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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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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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It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
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Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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