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Possibility Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
- But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
- 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…
- 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…
More Possibility Quotes
- Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go. — Michelle Bachelet
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet
- The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility… — James A. Baldwin
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
- We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached… — Ansel Adams
- Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me. — Antonio Banderas
- If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have… — Douglas Adams
- The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. — Douglas Adams
- I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be… — Clara Barton
- There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or… — Jean Baudrillard