Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Published january 16, 2015 16:45

Philosophy, in one of its functions, is the critic of cosmologies. It is its function to harmonise, refashion, and justify divergent intuitions as to the nature of things. It has to insist on the scrutiny of the ultimate ideas, and on the retention of the whole of the evidence in shaping our cosmological scheme. Its business is to render explicit, and, so far as may be, efficient, a process which otherwise is unconsciously performed without rational tests.