“Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful.”
Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
1861 – 1947
English mathematician and philosopher.
“The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.”
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”
“The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.”
“Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.”
“Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.”
“The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.”
“The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.”
“Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.”
“Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them.”
“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”
“The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.”
“Any physical object which by its influence deteriorates its environment, commits suicide.”
“A clash of doctrines is not a disaster — it is an opportunity.”
“The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other.”
