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" The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. "

Alfred North Whitehead

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" No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. "

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" Without adventure civilization is in full decay. "

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

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" The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. "

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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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" If a dog jumps into 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. "

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" It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. "

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" There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. "

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" We think in generalities, but we live in detail. "

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

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" 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. "

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" Seek simplicity but distrust it. "

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

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" It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. "

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

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