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Error is the price we pay for progress.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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  1. Thus the universe is to be conceived as attaining the active self-expression of its own variety of opposites of its own freedom and its own…
  2. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
  3. In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Perman…
  4. Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires just…
  5. A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics.
  6. ... the kingdom of heaven is with us today.
  7. The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity…
  8. The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

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  • learning
  • growth
  • progress
  • error
  • mistakes

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