Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
Alfred North WhiteheadBut harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
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 Whitehead