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Philosopher Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is…
- Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that…
- The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
- Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
- 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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