The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no… — 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 worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. — 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 with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow… — 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 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
