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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Alfred North Whitehead
Progress
Ideas
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Alfred North Whitehead
Imagination
Knowledge
Act
Fools
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
Mankind
Mind
Obvious
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Alfred North Whitehead
Life
Universe
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead
Importance
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead
Ideas
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Alfred North Whitehead
History
Time
Act
Idealism
Motives
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Alfred North Whitehead
Success
Gratitude
Help
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
Alfred North Whitehead
Business
Science
Future