List of quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
by Alfred North Whitehead
"The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future."
by Alfred North Whitehead
"Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings."
by Alfred North Whitehead N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims Raleigh NC:Rome Press Inc.
"A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity."
by Alfred North Whitehead
"Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves." by Alfred North Whitehead