Quote

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Theologian
Writer
Ramsgate
Kent
Obvious
Extraordinary
Intelligence
Takes
Contemplate
Contemplating

More quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

Image
I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The many become one and are increased by one.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
When success turns a man's head he faces failure
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
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.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
Alfred North Whitehead