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• 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.

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  Math, Science, Greek

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.7, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• When success turns a man's head he faces failure

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  Failure, Men, Faces

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• 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.

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  Men, Feelings, Culture

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.

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  Believe, Unitarian, Persons

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• Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

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  Development, Mathematics, Formal

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• You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.

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  Coats, May, Divides

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

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  Music, Numbers, Use

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

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  Past, Errors, Language

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

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  Change, Practice, Dumb

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .

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  Passionate, Unions, Facts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

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  Thinking, Knowing, Too Much

  Statement on November 11, 1947. "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead". Book by Alfred North Whitehead. Chapter 43,, 1954.

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• If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.

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  Ideas, Attention, May

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• I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

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  Selfish, Acceptance, Boss

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• But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

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  Destiny, Thinking, Fog

  Alfred North Whitehead (1954). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”

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• Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

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  Teaching, Math, Intellectual

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.

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  Nature, Regret, Lectures

  Alfred North Whitehead (1920). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November, 1919”, Cambridge University Press

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• Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

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  Preference, Mathematician, Indifferent

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• It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

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  Business, Future, Danger

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• The many become one and are increased by one.

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  Alfred North Whitehead (2009). “Mencari Tuhan Sepanjang Zaman: Dari Agama-Kesukuan Hingga Agama-Universal”, p.93, Mizan Pustaka

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• Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

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  Imagination, Way, Facts

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

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• 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 epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming . . . and a little mad.

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  Success, Cutting, Math

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

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  Nature, Anticipation, Surprise

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• "One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

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  Change, Math, Two

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

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  Half, Theoretical, Consequence

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

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• But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

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  Creativity, Reality, Growth

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

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