If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
Alfred North WhiteheadAlgebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
Alfred North Whitehead...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
Alfred North Whitehead