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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
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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Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
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The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. 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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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
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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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The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.
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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.
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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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With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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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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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.
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Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
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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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