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• No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Metaphysics, Unconscious, Secure

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

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• It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Knowledge And Power, Impossible, Emotion

  Alfred North Whitehead (2007). “The Concept of Nature”, p.73, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Danger, Chiefs

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Travel, Animal

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

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• As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

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  Mean, Religion, Adherence

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Home, America, Safety

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• Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Moral, Sin, Intolerance

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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

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• The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Development, May

  Science and the ModernWorld ch. 2 (1925)

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• Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

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  Peace, Self, Personality

  Alfred North Whitehead (1966). “Adventure of ideas”

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• Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Doe, Individual

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1954). “RELIGION IN THE MAKING”

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• The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

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  Art, Science, Law

  Alfred North Whitehead (1939). “An introduction to mathematics”

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• Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

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  Exercise, Genius, Intellectual Curiosity

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.

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  Animal, World, Earth

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• Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

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  Life, Math, Offensive

  Adventures of Ideas (1933) pt. 1, ch. 5

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• The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

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  Education, Adequate, Antithesis

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

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• Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

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  Education, Ideas, Useless

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

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• There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations

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  Matter, Subject Matter, Manifestation

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

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• Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Religion, Degenerates

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• Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Clarification, Rationalism

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Interesting, Important

  'Adventures of Ideas' (1933) pt. 4, ch. 16

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• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Science, Mind

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Successful, Sea, Doe

  "The Aims of Education". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

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• The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

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  Airplane, Science, Discovery

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Science, Evidence

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