Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
Alfred North WhiteheadLife is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Alfred North WhiteheadWithout deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.
Alfred North WhiteheadEverything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead