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Familiar Things Happen, And Mankind Does Not Bother About Them.
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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It
requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
-- Alfred North Whitehead, 'Science and the Modern World' 1925
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Modern science has imposed on humanity the necessity for wandering. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement.
Mankind has to be stirred up. -- Alfred North Whitehead...
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...
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
-- Alfred North Whitehead...
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you
but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. -- Alfred North Whitehead...