Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Plato, Philosophical, Knowledge

  Process and Reality pt. 2, ch. 1 (1929)

• There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Science, Views

  Alfred North Whitehead (1929). “The Aims of Education & Other Essays”

• The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  People, Tradition, Concerned

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