Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Exercise, Genius, Intellectual Curiosity

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

• Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mother, Silly, Exercise

• Common sense is genius in homespun.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Common Sense, Genius, Common

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