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• Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
  -- Alfred North Whitehead...
• Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
• The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
  -- Alfred North Whitehead...
• Modern science has imposed on humanity the necessity for wandering. -- Alfred North Whitehead
• We think in generalities, we live in detail. -- Alfred North Whitehead
• Without adventure civilization is in full decay. -- Alfred North Whitehead
• Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them.
  It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious....