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Things Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us.…
- I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because…
- In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth…
- 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…
- There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your…
- Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
- There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change,…
- Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
- Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the…
- The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance…
- The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
- 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…
- Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle