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Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
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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Value is coextensive with reality.
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Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.
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There is no nature at an instant.
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Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
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People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.
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Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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