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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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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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It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.
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Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
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The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
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Value is coextensive with reality.
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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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It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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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 oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.
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When success turns a man's head he faces failure
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Error itself may be happy chance.
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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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In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
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There is no nature at an instant.
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One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
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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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