Quotes by : Alfred North Whitehead

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical....

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past and it is the future.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working....

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

Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.

Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it.