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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

~Alfred North Whitehead

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Nationality: English

Type: Mathematician

Born: February 15th, 1861

Died: December 30th, 1947

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