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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
Alfred North Whitehead

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Category:
English Mathematician Quotes
Date of Birth:
February 15, 1861
Date of Death:
December 30, 1947
Nationality:
English
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Select Alfred North Whitehead Quotations:
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Alfred North Whitehead

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Alfred North Whitehead

Seek simplicity but distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Alfred North Whitehead


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Average, Bottom, Close, Just, Top
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