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Alfred North Whitehead, OM (February 15, 1861 December 30, 1947) was a British mathematician who evolved into a philosopher. He was born in Ramsgate, Kent, UK, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education. He is the coauthor, along with Bertrand Russell, of the epochal Principia Mathematica. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your comments or consult wikipedia
"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
Whitehead, Alfred North on Experience
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Whitehead, Alfred North on Intelligence and Intellectuals
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"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
Whitehead, Alfred North on Life and Living
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"Philosophy is the product of wonder."
Whitehead, Alfred North on Philosophers and Philosophy
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"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order."
Whitehead, Alfred North on Progress
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"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."
Whitehead, Alfred North on Quotations
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"Seek simplicity but distrust it."
Whitehead, Alfred North on Simplicity
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"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."
Whitehead, Alfred North on Speech
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"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
Whitehead, Alfred North on Thoughts and Thinking
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"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
Whitehead, Alfred North on Youth
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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
Whitehead, Alfred North on Action
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"Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them."
Whitehead, Alfred North on Action
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"Without adventure civilization is in full decay."
Whitehead, Alfred North on Adventure
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"Common sense is genius in homespun."
Whitehead, Alfred North on Common Sense
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"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."
Whitehead, Alfred North on Common Sense
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