Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.
Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
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
Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.
Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
Error itself may be happy chance.
Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.
A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
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