Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Experience
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
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Alfred North Whitehead
- Born: February 15, 1861
- Died: December 30, 1947
- Occupation: Mathematician