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What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
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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Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
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The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
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The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
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The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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