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• ...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Dark, Self, Age

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.5, David R. Godine Publisher

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• 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.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Appreciation, College, Issues

  Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Self, Excess

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Science, Secret

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• 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 teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Real, Book

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Zest, Connections, Uniting

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Truth, Lying, Heaven

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• In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

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  Education, Moving, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Technology, Thinking, Civilization

  An Introduction to Mathematics ch. 5 (1911)

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• The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Stars, Disappointment, Father

  "An Introduction to Mathematics" by Alfred North Whitehead, Ch. 1, 1911.

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• The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Pain, Optimism

  Science and the ModernWorld ch. 12 (1925)

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• A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Forget, Lost

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Emotional, Feelings, Accessories

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Reality, Growth, Essentials

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Science, Past

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no nature at an instant.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Math, Instant

  Alfred North Whitehead (2013). “The Concept of Nature”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

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  Art, Adventure, Scrapbooking

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.169, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Race, May, Littles

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .

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  Atoms, Doctrine, Copernicus

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

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  Extravagance, Harbour, Certain

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

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  Success, Race, Age

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• In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.

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  Writing, Garden, Order

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.164, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Reasoning, Premises, Straws

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

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  Men, Dying, Bed

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Seek simplicity, then distrust.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity, Distrust

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