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Alfred North Whitehead Facts
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In his early career Whitehead wrote primarily on mathematics, logic, and physics. His most notable work in these fields is the three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910–1913), which he wrote with former student Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica is considered one of the twentieth century's most important works in mathematical logic, and placed 23rd in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century by Modern Library. (1861-1947) |
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Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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The "silly question" is the first intimation of some totally new development.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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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 to the devil.
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