A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
Alfred North WhiteheadAlgebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
Alfred North WhiteheadNo reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
Alfred North Whitehead