Doe Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

16 Doe quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead’s 16 statements on Doe carry his hallmark emphasis on process and relational thinking. The excerpts give a clear taste of his abstract yet grounded perspective on the subject.

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Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.

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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

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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…

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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…

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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in…

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It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may…

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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,…

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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…

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God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process…

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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself…

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In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all…

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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

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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…

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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of…

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The many become one and are increased by one.

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

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The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

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Common sense is genius in homespun.

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