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“Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.”

Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

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This book presents a series of dialogues that delve into the philosophical concepts and theories of Alfred North Whitehead, a prominent philosopher and mathematician. The dialogues explore various aspects of his work, including process philosophy, metaphysics, and the nature of reality. more

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Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead was a British mathematician, philosopher, born on February 15, 1861, and died on December 30, 1947. He is known for his contributions to mathematics, logic, philosophy, and the philosophy of science, particularly for his co-authorship of 'Principia Mathematica' with Bertrand Russell. more

“As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on any human being. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torture, least of all to death, for the purpose of upholding or promoting her ideas. She presents herself unstained by cruelties and crimes. But in the Vatican-we have only to recall the Inquisition-the hands that are now raised in appeals to the Most Merciful are crimsoned. They have been steeped in blood!”

Source: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...

“Basic scientific research is scientific capital.”

Science Research Accounts Scientific Research Basic Research

Book:Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President

Source: Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President

“Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.”

Ifs Want May Matter Science Lines Attention Progress Genius Accounts Management Misfortunes Be You Money Management

Book:Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.

Source: Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.

“Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.”

Believe Facts Seems Science Wonder Strange Accounts Madness Mad Former Ladders Newton Extravagant

Author:Victor Hugo

“Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like the present,-considerably more scientific than poetical,-science substitutes for the smaller poetry of fiction, the great poetry of truth.”

Age Science Fiction Class Weakness Accounts Urges Substitutes Betray Decline Complaints Great Poet Great Poetry

Book:Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh

Source: Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh

“But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.”

Thinking Way Real Law Science Glory Accounts Evident Way Of Thinking

Book:The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

“But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.”