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Learning Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- You may not divide the seamless coat of learning,
- By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the…
- There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your…
- Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
- Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when…
- Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
- In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
- It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
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- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
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- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov