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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
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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Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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