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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Alfred North Whitehead quotes about knowledge

English Mathematician February 15, 1861 – December 30, 1947

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The truth is that science started its modern career by taking over ideas derived from the weakest side of the philosophies of Aristotle's successors. In some respects it was a happy choice. It enabled the knowledge of the seventeenth century to be formularised so far as physics and chemistry were concerned, with a completeness which has lasted to the present time. But the progress of biology and psychology has probably been checked by the uncritical assumption of half-truths. If science is... Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead quote: "Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of..."
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead quote: "Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows."
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. Alfred North Whitehead
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. Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead quote: "Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on..."
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. Alfred North Whitehead

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