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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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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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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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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
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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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Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.
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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future.
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
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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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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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