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Thinking

Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
—Whitehead

Jul 072023
 

Natura non facit saltus, perhaps; but thought makes nothing else.

Jun 282023
 

It is possible to oppose, in private, absurdities to which one is obliged to show fealty in public, but easier just to start believing them.

Jun 262023
 

Endlessly we subdivide, periodize, punctuate — hours and minutes and seconds, phylum and family, genus and species, molecule and atom, hadron and quark, ancient and medieval and modern. Continuity surrounds us; yet we cannot abide it, can scarcely believe in it.