Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Generalisation

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  • The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society.

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    "Science and the Modern World". Book by Alfred North Whitehead. Chapter 1: "The Origins of Modern Science", 1925.
  • It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .

    Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
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