Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Knowledge
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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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.
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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
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Alfred North Whitehead
- Born: February 15, 1861
- Died: December 30, 1947
- Occupation: Mathematician
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