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
inspirational courage crazy
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
art patterns recognition
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
self finals intellect
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
invention nineteenth-century method
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
men doe
Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
courage hero bravery
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
disappointment math molecules
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
mind impressive metaphysics
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
truth interesting important
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
common-sense genius common
Common sense is genius in homespun.
obvious contemplating extraordinary
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
nature instant
There is no nature at an instant.
past
How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
inspirational life doe
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.