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 humble ideas
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
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.
inspirational thank-you wise
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
inspirational should pupils
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
inspirational courage crazy
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
inspirational life doe
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
inspirational time educational
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
may coats seamless
You may not divide the seamless coat of learning,
writing animal interesting
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps spent his spare time in writing articles to prove that human beings are as other animals so that 'purpose' is a category irrelevant for the explanation of their bodily activities, his own activities included. Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
philosophy effort romance
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
passionate unions facts
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
home america safety
Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.
humanity quality human-nature
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
language spoken-language series
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.