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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2Fthumb%2F4%2F4e%2FAlfred_North_Whitehead.jpg%2F220px-Alfred_North_Whitehead.jpg&hash=65b63ab265492307fb188771da3e9111116fa99e)
An English mathematician who became a philosopher. Alfred North Whitehead, OM (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education. Whitehead supervised the doctoral dissertations of Bertrand Russell and Willard Van Orman Quine, thus influencing logic and virtually all of analytic philosophy. He co-authored the epochal Principia Mathematica with Russell. Here are some famous quotes by Alfred North Whitehead .
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We think in generalities but we live in detail.
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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.
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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
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Not ignorance but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
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Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
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The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
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The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past and it is the future.
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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.
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The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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If a dog jumps into your lap it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing it is because your lap is warmer.
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Every organism requires an environment of friends partly to shield it from violent changes and partly to supply it with its wants.
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content.
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Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.
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Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business the essential component in the success of every factory the ideal of every statesman.
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The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism founded upon appreciation of beauty and of intellectual distinction and of duty.
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The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal and no liberal education which is not technical.
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God is in the world or nowhere creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine of God and that participation is his immortality ....
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A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.