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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.
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Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.
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There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.
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But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat. Process and Reality
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Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things, without specifications of definite particular things.
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The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.
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In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world
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The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
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But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.
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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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