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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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Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
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