Alfred North Whitehead

“The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.”

“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.”

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”

“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”

“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”

“Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.”

“It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.”

“It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.”

“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”

“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”