412 Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

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

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.

Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.