Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
Whitehead, Alfred North. Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead. Recorded by Lucien Price, Little, Brown and Company, 1954.
Referring to the 98% reelection rate of congressional incumbents:
The designer was a exemplar of a third world artist and designer, having studied in the West, then implementing the emulation of neither but the creation of entirely new blended art and design. His cultural leap became an artistic and economic success.
Many important breakthroughs emanated from scientific curiosity of some scientist who was not thinking of any practical application at all.
Nothing that has ever been “certain” in the world of science has remained certain for more than 100 years and most certain things have been shown to be wrong or too simplistic in less than 30 years.
Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA 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.
