412 Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

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

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.

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

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.