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Aim Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- 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…
- The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,…
- To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
- Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the…
- Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most…
- The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the…
- The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
More Aim Quotes
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
- The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. — Robert Baden-Powell
- Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who… — Bryan Adams
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun