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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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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''
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The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
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The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.
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Routine is the god of every social system it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.
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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 justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.
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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
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The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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