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Certain Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus…
- In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal…
- On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
- There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to…
- 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,…
- Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to…
- Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
- But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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