"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
-Alfred North Whitehead
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"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.“
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"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
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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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"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
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"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
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"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
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