Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing… — 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
Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even… — 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… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be… — 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
What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information.… — 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
