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Error itself may be happy chance.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
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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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Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
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You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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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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As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
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The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
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There is no nature at an instant.
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
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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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There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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