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Important Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the…
- It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
- It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation…
- In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked…
- Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that…
- Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
- The Day of Judgment is an important notion: but that Day is always with us
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