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The many become one and are increased by one.

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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Philosopher
Physicist
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
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Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.
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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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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.
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The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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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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[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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