The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.Alfred North Whitehead
Through and through the world is infested with quantity To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large.... How large It is no use saying the radium is scarce.... How scarce You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
Alfred North Whitehead
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
Alfred North Whitehead
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Alfred North Whitehead
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