Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Growth

Quotes about: Growth

• 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

• But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Reality, Growth

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

• Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Reality, Growth, Essentials

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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