57 Quotations by Alfred North Whitehead
- 21. In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion w ...
- 22. Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on ...
- 23. It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
- 24. It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation ar ...
- 25. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
- 26. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
- 27. Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from ...
- 28. Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
- 29. Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nigh ...
- 30. Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is ...
- 31. Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
- 32. Philosophy is the product of wonder.
- 33. Seek simplicity but distrust it.
- 34. Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
- 35. Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
- 36. Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
- 37. Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
- 38. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
- 39. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
- 40. The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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