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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
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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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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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
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Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
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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 physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
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The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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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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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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In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
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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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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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