More from Alfred North Whitehead

  1. We do not require elaborate training merely in order to refrain from embarking upon intricate trains of inference. Such abstinence is only …
  2. The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of mole…
  3. The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are …
  4. It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultiva…
  5. Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitati…
  6. Philosophy, in one of its functions, is the critic of cosmologies. It is its function to harmonise, refashion, and justify divergent intuit…
  7. There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omit…
  8. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts': all the world over and at …

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