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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
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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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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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War can protect it cannot create.
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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
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The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
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No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
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...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
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Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
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It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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