English - Mathematician | February 15, 1861 - December 30, 1947
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
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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.
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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
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The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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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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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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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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