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Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
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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Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? 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 aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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