Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Character
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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable.
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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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Alfred North Whitehead
- Born: February 15, 1861
- Died: December 30, 1947
- Occupation: Mathematician