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Foolish Questions. "Every single generalization respecting mathematical physics which I was taught [at Trinity College, Cambridge]," he notes, "has now been abandoned. . . ." But Whitehead, who has seen science and philosophy adopt and then discard one "certainty" after another, remains undismayed: "The history of thought is largely concerned with the records of clear-headed men insisting that they at last have discovered some clear, adequately expressed, indubitable truths." Whitehead considers "inconsistent truths [as] seedbeds of suggestiveness," thinks (with his philosophical parent Plato) that "knowledge is a process," and that "ancient science stopped with Archimedes [because] people stopped asking foolish questions...
Should the Republicans combine with McKellar-type Democrats in rejecting Liliethal, they will far from throwing doubts on his ability and sinccrity, only serve to cast doubts on their own ability to discard blind partisanship on matters of crucial importance to the nation...
...period of considerable anguish occurs regularly around here every Sunday afternoon when the Managing Editor makes up the "back-of-the-book" (all departments from People on, except Business & Finance). At that juncture he has to discard (for reasons of space) a good part of the edited copy in front of him. He has to do it again on Monday for "front-of-the-book's" National Affairs, International, Foreign News...
...Senate, on paper, looked like a definite improvement over the old. Not only had some much-thumbed old political jacks been thrown into the discard (see below); among the 17 Republicans and five Democrats newly elected there were many practiced legislators, some right-&-left bowers...
...Jesus," says Dr. Scott, ". . . religion was no mere shell, enclosing an ethic, which was the kernel. He thought of morality as growing out of religion, and existing for the sake of it. The idea that you may discard the religion of Jesus and still retain his pure morality is utterly mistaken, for without the religion you have nothing...