Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
