Development Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

“Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.” quote by Alfred North Whitehead — Download Open image

“Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Development Formal Mathematics Reasoning Significance Type

More by Alfred North Whitehead

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

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Alfred North Whitehead

Image

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

Alfred North Whitehead

Image

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

Alfred North Whitehead

Image

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

Alfred North Whitehead

Image

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

Image

The many become one and are increased by one.

Alfred North Whitehead

Image

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

Image

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

Alfred North Whitehead

Image

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Alfred North Whitehead

Image

Explore all 356 Alfred North Whitehead quotes

More Development quotes

Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

Ilkin Santak

Image

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how…

Grace Lee Boggs

A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't…

Eddie Bravo

Image

Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but…

Bernard Lonergan

Image

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

Kofi Annan

Image

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning…

Paul Kurtz

Image

When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the protests and the preparations with interest. The bird people were furious, the developers unmovable, and Steven was filled with relief that the fight wasn't his. Nothing here was his... He thought there should…

Maile Meloy

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us…

Trofim Lysenko

Image

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it…

Arnold Bennett

Image

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty…

Anna Lindh

Image

They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the…

Marsden Hartley

Image

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars…

Muhammad Yunus

Image

Browse all 4,403 Development quotes

Development Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Related quotes

More by Alfred North Whitehead

More Development quotes