Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head coach at Harvard on January 7, 1935, to the dismay and discouragement of a Cambridge weary of football losses. In seven years of looping defenses, double shifts and sleight-of-hand offense, the prestidigitator from Westminster put the Crimson back in the Eastern football picture and in the process built himself a reputation as on of the leading tacticians in American football...
...awkwardness and obscurity of much of its style, the detailed technical discussions of which it is full, the abstractness of many of its issues, will prevent "Process and Reality" from over directly affecting more than a small number of industrious and independent thinkers. But its indirect effect has been and will continue to be enormous, it should forever remain, a landmark in the history of the intellect, a perpetual source of fundamental ideas, a monument in metaphysics, cosmology and theology, a watershed separating off twentieth century from nineteenth century thought...
According to "Process and Reality," this universe is made up of a host of beings. Whitehead called them "actual occasions." Each was a point where the finished met the possible, where the ideas of God joined history, where the physical was interwoven with the mental. Each according to him, "prehended," laid hold of and made internal to itself all that lay beyond it, in the world that had been and in the world that might be, to constitute a novel present unity. Each was the juncture of the whole of the past and the whole of the future...
...Process and Reality" will last as long as our scientific epoch does. His "Adventures of ideas" because not subject to the vicissitudes of scientific fashions, is a more enduring book. But not for that reason alone. It will, I believe, be read, pondered and discussed long after all of us are gone. It is a classic of our time, a wise book, a mellow one. Whitehead felt that it was his best. At once profound and lucid, original and erudite, comprehensive and detailed, it deals with the roots and fruits of cosmology, religion, art, ethics and civilization. In a hundred...
...embued with the training of mathematics and physical science. His early works in algebra and his great "Principia Mathematica," both of which brought combination and simplification to logic and mathematics, were the beginnings of his campaign, which reached fruition in 1929 with the publication of "Process and Reality," where he set forth a dynamic philosophy of the world which boldly embraced physical science and biology as well as mathematics and logic...