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~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« on: November 14, 2013, 09:48:34 AM »
Alfred North Whitehead Quotes


An English mathematician who became a philosopher.
Alfred North Whitehead, OM (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education. Whitehead supervised the doctoral dissertations of Bertrand Russell and Willard Van Orman Quine, thus influencing logic and virtually all of analytic philosophy. He co-authored the epochal Principia Mathematica with Russell.

Here are some famous quotes by Alfred North Whitehead .




We think in generalities but we live in detail.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2013, 10:48:25 AM »
How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2013, 10:48:55 AM »
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2013, 10:49:23 AM »
Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2013, 10:49:51 AM »
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2013, 10:50:17 AM »
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2013, 10:50:42 AM »
Not ignorance but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2013, 10:51:11 AM »
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2013, 10:51:37 AM »
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2013, 10:52:04 AM »
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2013, 10:52:30 AM »
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2013, 10:52:55 AM »
Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2013, 10:53:28 AM »
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2013, 10:53:56 AM »
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2013, 10:54:22 AM »
Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
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