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• Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb.
  Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth. -- Alfred North Whitehead...
• Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them.
  It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious....
• It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
  -- Alfred North Whitehead...
• The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts.
  Seek simplicity and distrust it. -- Alfred North Whitehead...
• Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
• Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement.
  Mankind has to be stirred up. -- Alfred North Whitehead...
• Everything important has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
  Alfred North Whitehead...
• We think in generalities, we live in detail. -- Alfred North Whitehead
• Without adventure civilization is in full decay. -- Alfred North Whitehead