Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Alfred North Whitehead quote One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
Alfred North Whitehead quote Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead quote 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 quote Necessity is the mother of invention' is a silly proverb. 'Necessity is the mother of futile dodges' is much nearer the truth.
Alfred North Whitehead quote Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
Alfred North Whitehead quote Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Alfred North Whitehead quote There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead quote Biography
English mathematician & philosopher. Lived 1861 - 1947.
