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A clash of doctrine is not a d...

A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The only use of knowledge of t...

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Philosophy is the product of w...

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The science of pure mathematic...

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

On the ostensible exactitude o...

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The point of mathematics is th...

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. So that for example, no mathematical truths apply merely to fish, or merely to stones, or merely to colours. So long as you are dealing with pure mathematics, you are in the realm of complete and absolute abstraction. . . . Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Mathematics as a science, comm...

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 things.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Culture is activity of thought...

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

From the very beginning of his...

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

No man of science wants merely...

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

A science which hesitates to f...

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Aristotle discovered all the h...

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Without deductive logic scienc...

Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

To come very near to a true th...

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. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Not a sentence or a word is in...

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The only justification in the ...

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Human nature loses its most pr...

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

There is no nature in an insta...

There is no nature in an instant.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

...the only simplicity to be t...

...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The pursuit of mathematics is ...

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

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