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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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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Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
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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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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 .
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
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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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The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
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The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
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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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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
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Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the self has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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