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Brief about Alfred North Whitehead: By info that we know Alfred North Whitehead was born at 1970-01-01. And also Alfred North Whitehead is English Mathematician.

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

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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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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

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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.

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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

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Philosophy is the product of wonder.

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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

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