The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. — 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 Image
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
