Complexity Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

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“...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.”

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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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