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“ ”It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
About Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead, OM (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.
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Additional quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
In so far as your metaphysical beliefs are implicit, you vaguely interpret the past on the lines of the present. But when it comes to the primary metaphysical data, the world of which you are immediately conscious is the whole datum.
The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.