Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher, best known as the defining figure of the "process philosophy" which is today applied in various disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology.Wisdom & Quotes
- Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
- If a dog jumps in 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.
- Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
- The science of pure mathematics … may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
- In the past, human life was lived in a bullock cart; in the future, it will be lived in an aeroplane; and the change of speed amounts to a difference in quality.
- Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.
- As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
- The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
- Philosophy begins in wonder, and at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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