Alfred North Whitehead Quotes & Sayings
57 most famous Alfred North Whitehead quotes and sayings (mathematician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.”
“Seek simplicity but distrust it.”
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”
“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”
“In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.”
“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”
“There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.”
“Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.”
“It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.”
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