Alfred North Whitehead

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."

"Creativity is the ultimate expression of power."

"It is the business of the future to be dangerous."

"No static thing endures; change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country produces."

"Seek simplicity, and distrust it."

"There are few radicals in the world; most of us merely want to improve a little."

"Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in destroying itself, so that it is impossible to derive the notions of right and wrong from the principles of evolution."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"Romance is the passion for reality."

"Fools act on imagination without knowledge; pedants act on knowledge without imagination."

"Importance is a relative conception."

"The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anaesthesia."

"A style is not something added as a mere embellishment to thought. The style is intrinsic to the thought."

"The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal."

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths."

"The purpose of education is not to fill the mind with facts, but to train the mind to think."

"Knowledge is power, but power is not knowledge."

"Religions commit suicide when they find their minds ceasing to adapt to the minds of each generation."

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."

"Understanding is the reward of faith."

"The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"All of life is an adventure."

"You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge."

"Freedom of thought is absolutely necessary for the progress of science."

"The achievement of learning is the discovery of something we did not know before."

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

"The recourse to metaphor marks the failure of language."