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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

  Ideas, Action, Birth

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

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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.

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  Appreciation, College, Issues

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

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• In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

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  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.

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  Art, Acquisition

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

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

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  Emotional, Feelings, Accessories

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, 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.

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  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.

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  Men, Doe

  1926 Religion in the Making.

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• Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

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  Educational, Ignorance, Greatness

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Disappointment, Math, Molecules

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

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• Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

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  Real, Interesting, Judgement

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Philosophy, Effort, Romance

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

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• Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

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  Creativity, Ideas, Common Sense

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.116, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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

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  Religion, Doe, Individual

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

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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

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  Race, May, Littles

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

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• Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.

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  Doe, Fishes

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

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

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  Knowledge, Fake, Branches

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• [In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.

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  Interesting, Important, Circumstances

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

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  Believe, Unitarian, Persons

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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.

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  Development, Derivatives, Medieval

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

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• Error itself may be happy chance.

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  Errors, May, Chance

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