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“Systems, scientific and philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length…”
“Systems, scientific and philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length…”

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“Systems, scientific and philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.”

Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas

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