Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious
--Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but
if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
--Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
--Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
--Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke,
and I am suspicious of those who aren't
--Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude
we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life
is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude
--Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.
--Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
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