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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
English mathematician & philosopher [more author details]

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A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.: Alfred North Whitehead
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.: Alfred North Whitehead
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.: Alfred North Whitehead
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.: Alfred North Whitehead
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If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.: Alfred North Whitehead
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.: Alfred North Whitehead
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.: Alfred North Whitehead
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.: Alfred North Whitehead
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.: Alfred North Whitehead
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.: Alfred North Whitehead
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The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial... he cannot go along with currents and trends.: Alfred North Whitehead
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.: Alfred North Whitehead
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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
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.: Alfred North Whitehead
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.: Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
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The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.: Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.: Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911)

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