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The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress on the minute study of details, and to overlook the great generalizations. It is the study of generalizations that liberates the human mind.
— Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education and Other Essays (1929)

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A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

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Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor

But no one, not even Einstein himself, imagined that this purely theoretical revolution would have practical applications that would alter the fabric of human life — relativity was the paragon of "useless knowledge."

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