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
philosophy numbers people
There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.
simplicity distrust
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
simplicity philosopher motto
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
selfish acceptance boss
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
expression humanity literature
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
speaks-out deeds action
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
destiny thinking fog
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
philosophy science secret
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
religious affection persons
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
future science merit
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
appreciation college issues
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
literature absence
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
matter juxtaposition deals
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
art self secret
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.