Knowledge keeps no better than fish

Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely...

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely...

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

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

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

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded...

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded...

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely...

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely...

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges...

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges...

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

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

Seek simplicity but distrust it

Seek simplicity but distrust it

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

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

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

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

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

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

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more...

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more...

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always...

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always...