Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

• One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Travel, Animal

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

• To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Mean, Doe

  Alfred North Whitehead (2015). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures”, p.109, Cambridge University Press

• I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Regret, Lectures

  Alfred North Whitehead (1920). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November, 1919”, Cambridge University Press

• Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Anticipation, Surprise

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

• There is no nature at an instant.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Math, Instant

  Alfred North Whitehead (2013). “The Concept of Nature”, p.61, Courier Corporation

• Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Song, Nature, Congratulations

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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