Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.
Alfred North WhiteheadIt is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
Alfred North WhiteheadArt flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
Alfred North WhiteheadAristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
Alfred North WhiteheadIt is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
Alfred North Whitehead