Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead OM FRSwas an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth15 February 1861
Alfred North Whitehead quotes about
plato philosophical knowledge
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
real giving waiting
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.
time tragedy definitions
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
wisdom math science
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
art adventure funny-adventure
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
adventure civilization decay
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
nature animal trends
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
instant
There is no nature in an instant.
philosophy errors chiefs
The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
life suggestions hints
Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
inspirational should pupils
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
clothes brain body
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
wisdom people tree
Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
science ideas innovation
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.