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Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.

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The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

Earth, Rise Above, Future, Rise, Belongs

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.

Accurate, Calculations, Errors, Facts, Math, Prolonged

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

Condition, Exercise, Genius, Intellectual Curiosity, Pleasurable

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Philosophy, Product, Products, Wonder

Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

Doubt, Final, Flux, Philosophical, Philosophy

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

Audience, Clear, Gains, Like, Men, Writing

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

Aimed, Emotion, Future, Life, Past

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

Fill, Flame, Flames, Kindles, Purpose

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

Activity, Faith, God, Motivational, Passing

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

Common Sense, Creativity, Ideas, Master, Sole, Work

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

Educational, Greatness, Human, Humanity, Ideas, Ignorance

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

Acquisition, Art, Education, Utilisation

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Aesthetic, Art, Enjoyment, Imposing, Patterns, Recognition

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

Experience, Imagination, Imaginations, Imaginative, Slight, Tragedy

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

Important, Interesting, Proposition, True, Truth

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Aesthetic, Indifferent, Mathematician, Preference, Probably, Quite

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

Bed, Dying, Men, Science, Worst

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

Aesthetic, Beauty, Cognitive, Everyday, Foundation

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

Besetting, Intolerance, Moral, Sin

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

Names, Old, People, Saintly, Sight

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