8/26/16

Top 10 Alfred North Whitehead Quotes : Part 2 Of 2

(5)
 In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
(4)
 No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
(3)
 Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
(2)
 Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
(1)
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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