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In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world.

— Alfred North Whitehead Science and the Modern World (1925)

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In all philosophic theory there is an ultimate which is actual in virtue of its accidents.

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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of all rationality.

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

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