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• Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
  -- Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) "Aims of Education and Other Essay...
• The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts.
  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...
• Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
• The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
  -- Alfred North Whitehead...
• It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
  -- W. R. Inge...
• MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue.
  In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration....
• When I find true wisdom, I'll let you know, (if letting you know still seems important.)
• Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them.
  It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious....