Alfred North Whitehead Quotes on Time
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 time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“The safest general characterisation of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
Pt. II, ch. 1, sec. 1. -
“The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.”
p. 285. -
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”
Process and Reality, 1929 -
“Einstein analyses the ideas of time-order and of simultaneity. Primarily (according to his analysis) time-order only refers to the succession of events at a given place. Accordingly each given place has its own time-order. But these time-orders are not independent in the system of nature, and their correlation is known to us by means of physical measurement. Now ultimately all physical measurement depends upon coincidence in time and place.”
p. 51