412 Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.

The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

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.

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.