Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
Alfred North WhiteheadOn the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
Alfred North WhiteheadWe must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
Alfred North WhiteheadA great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
Alfred North Whitehead