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
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.
courage travel adventure
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
inspirational truth science
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
real knowledge science
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
doe penalties periods
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
power use force
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
numbers poetry-and-music may
You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.