Alfred North Whitehead

1861–1947 · British mathematician and philosopher

British mathematician and philosopher who wrote on mathematical reasoning, nature and the purposes of education.

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5 quotes we’ve traced to Alfred North Whitehead

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them”

“Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge”

“It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense”

“Knowledge does not keep any better than fish”

“Seek simplicity and distrust it”

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