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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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Value is coextensive with reality.
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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
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I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.
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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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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
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...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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