“Error is the price we pay for progress.”

— Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, 1929

About Alfred North Whitehead

1861 – 1947

English mathematician and philosopher.

“Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful.”

“The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.”

“The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”

“Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.”

“A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.”

“He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!”

“Speak up, my boy. If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.”