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Alfred North 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.

Alfred North Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: english
Birth: February 15, 1861 - December 30, 1947

Topics

Future Appreciation Thought Creation

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

Melvin Maddocks

Truth Together Facts Thought Enough

I want to shake things up like 'Bloom County' did.

Want Bloom Up Things Like Shake

I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark. But it was really hard to accept as an artist that there's a lot of people that hate me, but on the other side, there are many more people who love me. I think everyone goes through that.

Love Light Hate People Me Think

I started out in the Chabad movement, and I started pretty closed up, with the idea of there being that 'this is it.' I bought into that fully. I really explored in depth the Chabad ideology.

Movement Out Up Pretty Depth Being

Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.

Fun Interesting You Bad Play Actor

You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Building You New Wonderful Cannot

If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

Home Children Child World Parent

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.

Memory Me Book Remember Know Now

When you're in the world I'm in, sometimes you have to remember that when you see your friends, you need to ask them what they've been doing, and you need to grow up and learn your life isn't necessarily more interesting than other people's.

Life People World Grow Learn Doing

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.

Way Awkward Well Absolutely Effect

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

History People Believe Mythology Set

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

Strength Vision Service I Am Afraid

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