No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
Alfred North WhiteheadAlgebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
Alfred North Whitehead