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• The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Discovery, Weapons, Facts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Loyalty, World, Way

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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• There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Lying, Quality, Facts

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

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• The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Cold, Storage, Abolish

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.305, David R. Godine Publisher

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• It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Thinking, Affair

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.3, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Lying, Hands, Leader

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Hands, Ideas, Secret

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Good Man, Solemnity

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.59, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Zero, Needs, Use

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.43, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Lying, Sunset

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• Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Tragedy, Tvs, Youth

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• We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Past, Thinking, Details

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Extravagance, Safe

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

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• To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Mean, Doe

  Alfred North Whitehead (2015). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures”, p.109, Cambridge University Press

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• In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Reality, Class, World

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Acquisition

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

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• 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

  Passion, Knowledge, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Doe

  1926 Religion in the Making.

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• The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Disappointment, Math, Molecules

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.1, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Development, Derivatives, Medieval

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religion, Doe, Individual

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Knowledge, Fake, Branches

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• Error itself may be happy chance.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Errors, May, Chance

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• Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Effort, Romance

  Alfred North Whitehead (2012). “Nature and Life”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Doe, Fishes

  1916 'The Aims of Education; a plea for reform', address as president of the Mathematical Association.

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