In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.More Alfred North Whitehead quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.More Alfred North Whitehead quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.More Alfred North Whitehead quotes [07/19/2011 01:07:18]

Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.More Alfred North Whitehead quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.More Alfred North Whitehead quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]