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No epoch is homogeneous; whatever you may have assigned as the dominant note of a considerable period, it will always be possible to produce men, and great men, belonging to the same time, who exhibit themselves as antagonistic to the tone of their age.

— 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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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

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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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