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Thought Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus…
- The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour,…
- The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
- From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
- I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from…
- 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…
- The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities.…
- Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written…
- Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old…
- The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples…
- The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
- There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
- It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
- To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
- Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
- Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
- Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
- The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
- The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor,…
- The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
- We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking…
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