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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

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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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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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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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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There is no nature in an instant.
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There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
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Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the self has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
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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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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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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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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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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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In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.
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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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