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Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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 learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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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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There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
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The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
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