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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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Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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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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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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