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• People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mistake, Talking, Law

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.363, David R. Godine Publisher

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• In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Failure, Teaching, Causes

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Independent, Conversation, Circumstances

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• The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

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  Stupidity, Battle, Defense

  Alfred North Whitehead (1933). “Adventure of Ideas”

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• In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Knowledge, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Silly, Creativity, Ideas

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead".

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• 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 the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Preoccupation, Type, Rescue

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Teacher, Details, Mastery

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Simple, Asks

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.

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  Mean, Adventure, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

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  Emotion, Life Is, Ninety

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" by Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price, Ch. 29, 1954.

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• 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.

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  Beauty, Everyday, Foundation

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• The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Time, Inspiration

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosopher

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• There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Truth, Lying, Half

  Dialogues prologue (1954)

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• An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Determination, Opinion, Preservation

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.

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  Morning, Ocean, Adventure

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• In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world

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  Mirrors, World, Location

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.

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  Understanding, Nuisance, Decay

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Affection, Persons

  Church and Home (published by United Methodist Church, and Evangelical United Brethren Church), Volume 1, p. 21, 1964.

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• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

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  Change, Art, Order

  Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (1978). “Process and reality: an essay in cosmology”, Free Pr

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• The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure.

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  Adventure, Self, Common Sense

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• Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.

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  Dream, Dreamer, Fulfilled

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• It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

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  Future, Science, Merit

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

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• The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Perception, Foundation, Eternity

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

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