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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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 absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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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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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
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Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
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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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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
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It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
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The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
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You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
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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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Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.
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The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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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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You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.
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The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.
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