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
achievement english-mathematician periods seldom
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
math errors facts
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.
contemplation diagrams mathematical
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
math ordinary language
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
preference mathematician indifferent
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
math organization imagination
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
math intellectual world
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
fake branches mathematics
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
greek firsts mathematics
Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.
development mathematics type
Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
wisdom math science
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
disappointment math molecules
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
life math mind
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
math development may
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.