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The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.
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 vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
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Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
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The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.
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It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
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