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16 Alfred North Whitehead Quotes & Sayings
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16 Alfred North Whitehead Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 15 February 1861. Died: 30 December 1947 |
Mathematician
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Philosopher
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
It requires
Usual mind
Undertake
Analysis
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
Art
Experience
Aesthetic enjoyment
Pattern
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the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
Alfred North Whitehead
Only simplicity
Be trusted
Complexity
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We think in generalities, but we live in details.
Alfred North Whitehead
We think
Generalities
Live
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
Alfred North Whitehead
Very beginning
His education
Child
Experience
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
Alfred North Whitehead
New idea
Looks crazy
At first
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
Alfred North Whitehead
Great dreamers
Never fulfilled
Always transcended
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There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead
Whole truth
Treat them
Plays
Devil
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
Alfred North Whitehead
About zero
Use it
The operation
Daily life
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead
Intelligence
Quickness
Apprehend
Ability
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A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
Alfred North Whitehead
Science
That hesitates
To forget
Founders
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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling
Alfred North Whitehead
Life
Complex
Its expression
Percipience
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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.
Alfred North Whitehead
The business
Future
Be dangerous
Science
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
Alfred North Whitehead
Rationalism
An adventure
Clarification
Thought
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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
Alfred North Whitehead
The moment
Birth
In action
Taking thought
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Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.
Alfred North Whitehead
Religion
What
An individual does
His solitariness
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