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Philosoph, Mathematiker (USA, 1861 - 1947).

Alfred North Whitehead · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Alfred North Whitehead wäre heute 163 Jahre, 2 Monate, 5 Tage oder 59.599 Tage alt.

Geboren am 15.02.1861 in Ramsgate
Gestorben am 30.12.1947 in Cambridge
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann

• Alle Wahrheiten sind Halbwahrheiten. Sie als volle Wahrheiten zu behandeln heißt den Teufel spielen.
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• Aristoteles erfand die Wissenschaft, aber zerstörte die Philosophie.

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• Das Lernen enthält die Irrtümer der Vergangenheit wie auch ihre Weisheiten.
  • Vergangenheit
  • Bildung - Lernen - Wissen

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• Daß die Bibel keine Spur von Humor enthält, ist eine der merkwürdigsten Tatsachen der ganzen Literatur.
  • Humor

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• Der erste Mensch, der die Analogie zwischen einer Gruppe von sieben Fischen und einer Gruppe von sieben Tagen feststellte, machte einen bedeutenden Fortschritt in der Geschichte des Denkens.
  • Fortschritt
  • Geschichte

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• Eine Wissenschaft, die zögert, ihre Gründer zu vergessen, ist verloren.

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• Es ist mir nicht um der Wahrheit wegen um die Wahrheit zu tun, sondern meinetwegen.
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• Ideen halten sich nicht. Es muß etwas mit ihnen getan werden.
  • Gut und Geld

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• Nicht die Unwissenheit, sondern die Unwissenheit der Unwissenheit ist der Tod des Wissens.
  • Unwissen - Unwissenheit

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• "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.

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• All centuries are dangerous; it is the business of the future to be dangerous. It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been the unstable ages.

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• An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.

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• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

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• As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

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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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• Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parents. It may assent to them, but it brings them out into the open.

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• Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

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• Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

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• If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

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• If you have had your attention directed to the novelties of thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain spect of foolishnes when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.

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