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Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
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 chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
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Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
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Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
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You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
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The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.
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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.
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Speak out in acts the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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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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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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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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The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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