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It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

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Business English Mathematician

Without adventure civilization is in full decay - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Without adventure civilization is in full decay

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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the 15th century. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the 15th century.

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

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Courage English Mathematician

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato

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Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God

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God

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language

Alfred Whitehead

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike

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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

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Art

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

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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. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

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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Adventure Ideas

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

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Art

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

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Cats English Mathematician

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

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English Mathematician

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge

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Death

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't

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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination

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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude

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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery

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Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of

Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of "artistic" expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

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Adventure English Mathematician

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

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English Mathematician Ideas

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious

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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

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English Mathematician Mind

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

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English Mathematician Philosophy

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression

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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt egerneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt egerneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life

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Life

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced

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Fools And Foolishness

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory

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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature

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The

The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

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Art Arts And Artists

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

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English Mathematician

"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.

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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it

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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 - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

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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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 - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

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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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals

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Force

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

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Ambition English Mathematician

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

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Achievement English Mathematician

Seek simplicity but distrust it - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Seek simplicity but distrust it

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We think in generalities, but we live in detail - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

We think in generalities, but we live in detail

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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 the devil. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

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Every really new idea looks crazy at first. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

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Knowledge keeps no better than fish - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Knowledge keeps no better than fish

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Fish

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

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There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

There is a 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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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it

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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. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

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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