Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Transitory

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  • The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

    Alfred North Whitehead (1939). “An introduction to mathematics”
  • The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

  • To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

    Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.4, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]
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Alfred North Whitehead

  • Born: February 15, 1861
  • Died: December 30, 1947
  • Occupation: Mathematician