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• For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Successful, Sea, Doe

  "The Aims of Education". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

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• There is no nature in an instant.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Instant

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• Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

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  Education, Fate, Long

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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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 fifteenth century.

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  Math, Information, Printing

  "The Aims of Education". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

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• Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Doubt

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

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  Success, Education, Opportunity

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

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  Language, Spoken Language, Series

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

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  Past, Length Of Life, Progress

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

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  Art, Patterns, Recognition

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

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• By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

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  Learning, Race, Brain

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.39, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

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  Plato, Lying, Christianity

  1938 Adventures of Ideas.

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• Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

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  Life, Past, Emotion

  Alfred North Whitehead (2012). “Nature and Life”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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• A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Order, Want

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• We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.

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  Block, Simple, Vision

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Educational, Ignorance, Greatness

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.

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  Math, Organization, Imagination

  Alfred North Whitehead (1960). “A Treatise on Universal Algebra with Applications”, p.12, CUP Archive

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• That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

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  Character, Greatness, Add

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.

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  Horse, Thinking, Civilization

  An Introduction to Mathematics ch. 5 (1911)

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• 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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  Wisdom, Future, Past

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Creativity, Ideas, Common Sense

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.116, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

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  Race, Intelligence, Doe

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• The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.

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  Term

  Alfred North Whitehead, Donald W. Sherburne (1981). “A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

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• A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

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  Writing, Men, Gains

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.64, David R. Godine Publisher

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• A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

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  Flower, Culture, Finest

  Alfred North Whitehead (1954). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”

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• The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society.

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  Men, Mind, Principles

  "Science and the Modern World". Book by Alfred North Whitehead. Chapter 1: "The Origins of Modern Science", 1925.

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