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Much Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive…
- Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is…
- Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does…
- Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
- Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life…
- Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life…
- "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.
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