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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
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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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
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Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.
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I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.
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It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
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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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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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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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