Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

English - Mathematician | February 15, 1861 - December 30, 1947

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

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

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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

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