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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn’t depend on formal schooling (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)