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Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
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 misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
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The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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There is no nature at an instant.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
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Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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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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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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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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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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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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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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