Famous quote by Alfred North Whitehead

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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysi
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"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious"

- Alfred North Whitehead

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This quote by Alfred North Whitehead speaks with the concept that individuals often take the familiar things in life for given. We don't typically put in the time to evaluate the apparent, and it takes an unique type of individual to do so. Whitehead is recommending that it takes an unusual mind to be able to look at the daily and ordinary and find something new and intriguing in it. He is suggesting that it takes a particular level of imagination and intelligence to be able to take a look at the world in a different method and find something new and exciting in it. Whitehead is suggesting that it takes a special type of individual to be able to look at the world in a various way and find something new and amazing in it. He is suggesting that it takes a particular level of creativity and intelligence to be able to take a look at the world in a different method and find something new and exciting in it. He is motivating us to make the effort to examine the apparent and to look for something brand-new and interesting in the everyday.

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England Flag This quote is written / told by Alfred North Whitehead between February 15, 1861 and December 30, 1947. He/she was a famous Mathematician from England. The author also have 47 other quotes.

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