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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.

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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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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Speak out in acts the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
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Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
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The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.
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If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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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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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.
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The many become one and are increased by one.
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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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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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