Alfred North Whitehead Quotes on Knowledge
Alfred North Whitehead was a British mathematician, logician, and philosopher of the late 19th and 20th centuries. This page collects quotes attributed to Alfred North Whitehead on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Alfred North Whitehead:
“The safest general characterisation of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
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Attributed to Alfred North Whitehead:
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”
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Attributed to Alfred North Whitehead:
“Seek simplicity, and distrust it.”
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Attributed to Alfred North Whitehead:
“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”
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Attributed to Alfred North Whitehead:
“Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.”