There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies… — 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
