Best Alfred North Whitehead Quotations
- Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise Activity
- The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. Bore
- Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old… Bad
- Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment... Adventure
- Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does… Always Reflected
- The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples… Aim
- The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook… Babe
- "One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this… Analyze
- Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. All
- Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. Algebra
- To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more… Abstraction
- Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet. All
- So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the… Any
- Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Emotion
- All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. All
- Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness. Consciousness
- In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked… Active
- Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived. Conceived
- The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable. Consequence
- An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion. Account
- Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. Derivative
- But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. Abstract
- There is no nature at an instant. Inspirational
- Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large.… Cannot Evade
- There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two… Adherents
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