Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Success
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
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I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming . . . and a little mad.
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The motive of success is not enough.
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Alfred North Whitehead
- Born: February 15, 1861
- Died: December 30, 1947
- Occupation: Mathematician
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