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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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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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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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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
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The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
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The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
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Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things, without specifications of definite particular things.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
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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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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
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