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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.

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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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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
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Seek simplicity, then distrust.
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
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The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.
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