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Some Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
- The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged…
- 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…
- Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.
- There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change,…
- There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to…
- 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 of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
- Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to…
- Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that…
- No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism…
- Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
- I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition…
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