Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead 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.

Date of birth:
15th February, 1861
Date of death:
30th December, 1947
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
― Alfred North Whitehead
Topic(s): Business
"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."
― Alfred North Whitehead
Topic(s): Intelligence
"If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer."
― Alfred North Whitehead
Topic(s): Pet
"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
― Alfred North Whitehead
Topic(s): Courage
"Religion is the last refuge of human savagery."
― Alfred North Whitehead
Topic(s): Religion
"It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."
― Alfred North Whitehead
Topic(s): Intelligence
"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
― Alfred North Whitehead
Topic(s): History
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
― Alfred North Whitehead
Topic(s): Best
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
― Alfred North Whitehead
Topic(s): Change
"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."
― Alfred North Whitehead
Topic(s): Success

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