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Alfred North Whitehead bol anglický matematik a filozof.

✵ 15. február 1861 – 30. december 1947
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Alfred North Whitehead citát: „Matematika je veda o najzložitejších abstrakciách, k akým môže ľudský um dospieť.“

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“What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.”

Zdroj: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 22, August 30, 1941.

“A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics.”

1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

“The relevant poems are Milton's Paradise Lost, Pope's Essay on Man, Wordsworth's Excursion, Tennyson's In Memoriam.”

Zdroj: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 5: "The Romantic Reaction"

“The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.”

Zdroj: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 36, January 19, 1945.

“With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.”

Zdroj: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 29, June 10, 1943.

“Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought.”

1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925)

“Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.”

Zdroj: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 63, Ch. 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=UZeJuLvNq80C&q="Intolerance+is+the+besetting+sin+of+moral+fervour"&pg=PA50#v=onepage

“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”

"Harvard: The Future," http://books.google.com/books?id=X3k5AQAAIAAJ&q=%22No+member+of+a+crew+is+praised+for+the+rugged+individuality+of+his+rowing%22&pg=PA266#v=onepage The Atlantic Monthly, September 1936 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/theatlantic/doc/203819851.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE&type=current&date=Sep+1936&author=Alfred+North+Whitehead&pub=The+Atlantic+(1932-1971)&edition=&startpage=260-270&desc=Harvard:+The+future
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“Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.”

Zdroj: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 43, November 11, 1947.

“The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.”

Zdroj: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 285.

“The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.”

Pt. V, ch. 1, sec. 1.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

“It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.”

Zdroj: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 13: Requisites for Social Progress.

“The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.”

Zdroj: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 6: "The Nineteenth Century"

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