Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
Alfred North Whitehead

Future, Thought, Far

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North Whitehead

Humor, Bible, Literature

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
Alfred North Whitehead

Live, Done, Thought

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
Alfred North Whitehead

Time, Happen, Place

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Alfred North Whitehead

Best, Alone, Wisdom

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Alfred North Whitehead

Adventure, Full, Decay

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Mathematician

Born: February 15, 1861

Died: December 30, 1947

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