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A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
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 tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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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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There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.
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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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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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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.
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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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