412 Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ....

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.