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Facts Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures…
- I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because…
- Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
- In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the…
- In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking…
- 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 paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
- Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.
- The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a…
- 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…
- There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there…
- The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the…
- The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact,…
- Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting…
- 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…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden