Alfred North Whitehead Quotes - Page 8

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• Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Book, Pages, Select

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas'
  - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind
  without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Ideas, Mind, Combination

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• So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Information, Printing

  "The Aims of Education". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

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• Common sense is genius in homespun.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Common Sense, Genius, Common

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• Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Giving, Waiting

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• ...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity, Sides, Found

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• With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Powerful, Sight, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.228, David R. Godine Publisher

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• There is no nature in an instant.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Instant

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• Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Government, Facts, Considering

  "Adventures of Ideas".

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• Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Language, Spoken Language, Series

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Fate, Long

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• War can protect; it cannot create.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  War, Math, Protect

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Thinking, Society

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Success, Education, Opportunity

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Self, Common Sense

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• Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Past, Emotion

  Alfred North Whitehead (2012). “Nature and Life”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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• To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Discovery, Two

  "The Organization of Thought" (1917)

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• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Patterns, Recognition

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

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• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Change, Art, Order

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

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• The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Plato, Lying, Christianity

  1938 Adventures of Ideas.

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• To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Ontology, Logic, Certainty

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.4, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Order, Want

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• Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Angel, Science, Games

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Knowledge, Principles, Details

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Doubt

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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