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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
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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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.
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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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The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future.
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
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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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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
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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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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
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The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.
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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
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