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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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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Routine is the god of every social system it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.
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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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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.
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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
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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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Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things, without specifications of definite particular things.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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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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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.
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To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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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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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.
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God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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