Alfred North Whitehead Quotes - Page 6

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• An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mind, Way, Wells

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• The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Courage, Travel, Adventure

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" by Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price, Ch. 12, (p. 100), 1954.

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• The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Spirit, Madness

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Christian, Race, Religion

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead".

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• It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  May, Paradox, Mood

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.71, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.

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  Learning, Thinking, Technique

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• Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Friendship, Want, Shields

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Errors, Chiefs

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Invention, Century, Nineteenth Century

  Science and the ModernWorld ch. 6 (1925)

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• Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Fishes

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• Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Teach, Subjects

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• Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Civilization, Decay

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• Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Ideas, Innovation

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Order, Doe

  Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (1978). “Process and reality: an essay in cosmology”, Free Pr

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• Value is coextensive with reality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Reality, Values

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• Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

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  Inspirational, Humble, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.194, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Sight, Names, People

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Half, Creation

  Alfred North Whitehead (1954). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”

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• Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Science, Simplicity

  The Concept of Nature ch. 7 (1920)

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• Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Christ, Dogmatism, Anti Christ

  Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Appreciation, Intellectual, Criticism

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• Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Motivational, God, Faith

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• It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.

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  Morning, Ocean, Adventure

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• Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wise, Intelligent, Intelligence

  Dialogues (1954) 15 Dec. 1939

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• Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Humanity, Quality, Human Nature

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.142, Open Road Media

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