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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
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The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.
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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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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.
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Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
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Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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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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Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
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The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir
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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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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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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
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