Quotes by : Alfred North Whitehead

Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the....

The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear....

A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.....

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.....

God is in the world or nowhere creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of....

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks....

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum....