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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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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
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A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
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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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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
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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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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
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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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Speak out in acts the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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When success turns a man's head he faces failure
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Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.
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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.
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
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