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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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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
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Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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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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The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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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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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
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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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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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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
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