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• Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Humble, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.194, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Motivational, God, Faith

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• Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Teach, Subjects

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• Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Civilization, Decay

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• To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Discovery, Two

  "The Organization of Thought" (1917)

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• One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Travel, Animal

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Science, Law

  Alfred North Whitehead (1939). “An introduction to mathematics”

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• Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Book, Pages, Select

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Doe, Individual

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1954). “RELIGION IN THE MAKING”

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• Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Ideas, Useless

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Peace, Self, Personality

  Alfred North Whitehead (1966). “Adventure of ideas”

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• It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Interesting, Important

  'Adventures of Ideas' (1933) pt. 4, ch. 16

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• It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Knowledge And Power, Impossible, Emotion

  Alfred North Whitehead (2007). “The Concept of Nature”, p.73, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Appreciation, Intellectual, Criticism

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Science, Mind

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas'
  - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind
  without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Ideas, Mind, Combination

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• There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Matter, Subject Matter, Manifestation

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Math, Offensive

  Adventures of Ideas (1933) pt. 1, ch. 5

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• The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Airplane, Science, Discovery

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Science, Evidence

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• Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Religion, Degenerates

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• You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Numbers, Poetry And Music, May

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Giving, Waiting

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• Common sense is genius in homespun.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Common Sense, Genius, Common

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• The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Adequate, Antithesis

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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