The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
Alfred North WhiteheadThere are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
Alfred North WhiteheadI will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming . . . and a little mad.
Alfred North Whitehead