True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.Alfred North Whitehead
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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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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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
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One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
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In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.
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