412 Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

The above proposition is occasionally useful.(after proving that 1+1=2)

Faraday was asked: "What is the use of this discovery?" He answered: "What is the use of a child - it grows to be a man.

Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.

Russell is a Platonic dialogue in himself.

In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.