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The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
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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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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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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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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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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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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