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Firsts 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…
- The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
- Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular…
- In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
- In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward…
- Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
- Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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