Particular Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

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

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

— Alfred North Whitehead

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

The many become one and are increased by one.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Common sense is genius in homespun.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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