Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This inevitableness of destiny can only be illustrated in terms of human life by incidents which in fact involve unhappiness. For it is by them that the futility of escape can be made evident in the drama. This remorseless inevitableness is what pervades scientific thought. The laws of physics are the decrees of fate.
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Alfred North Whitehead was a 19th-century English mathematician and philosopher. Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality
- Science — Discovery, inquiry, and the wonders of the natural world