The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all… — 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
