Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.
Alfred North WhiteheadNature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.
Alfred North WhiteheadNo science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
Alfred North Whitehead