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Samuel Alexander
(6 Jan 1859 - 13 Sep 1938)
Australian-British philosopher who is known for developing British Emergentism, a philosophical view that mind “emerges” from matter. His greatest work is Space, Time, and Deity (1920).
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Science Quotes by Samuel Alexander (1 quote)
Scientific work, especially mathematical work which is purely conceptual, may indeed possess the appearance of beauty, because of the inner coherence which it shares with fine art, or may resemble a piece of architecture.
— Samuel Alexander
From 'Characters of the Beautiful', Beauty, Chap. 3, collected in Collected Works Of Samuel Alexander (2000), 51-52.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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