...vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been...absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation...

...tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts': all the world over and at all times there...

...tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts' : all the world over and at all times there...

...tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts; all the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there...

...tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in "irreducible and stubborn facts": all the world over and at all times there...

...made for a "new tinge in modern minds." "All the world over and at all times," Whitehead explained, there have been practical men, absorbed in "irreducible...absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation...

...solar system from powerful telescopes and space telescopes. 297 6 SPHERICAL MODELS: SCALING THE COSMOS All the world over and at all times there have been...absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalization...

...sloppy dregs of the Renaissance."19 Professor Alfred North Whitehead, on the other hand, says that "All the world over and at all times there have been...men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts' . . . ."20 In Essays New and Old, Aldous Huxley asserts that the scientific and industrial revolutions...

...have to forge every sentence in the teeth of irreducible and stubborn facts."1'1 Whitehead remarks: "All the world over and at all times there have been...'irreducible and stubborn facts': all the world over there have been men of philosophical temperament who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles....

...tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts': all the world over and at all times there...