Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

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

The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

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.