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Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead · 1861–1947

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“He lived three intellectual lives — mathematician, philosopher of science, metaphysician — and in the last of them argued that the universe is not a collection of stuff but an ongoing act of creation.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 189

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“Reality is not made of things that endure but of events that become — momentary pulses of experience that arise, absorb their whole past, and pass their achievement on.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 189

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