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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
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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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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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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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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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