“Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them.”

— Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, 1925

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.”

“Error is the price we pay for progress.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”