A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes.… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It… — 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
