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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

«The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.»
«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.»
«No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.»
«Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.»
«Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge»
«I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't»
«Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination»
«Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude»
«Religion is the last refuge of human savagery»
«The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it»

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