Quote by Whitehead, Alfred North
"The very essence of intellectual and artistic achievement is the refusal to accept the mundane."
More from Whitehead, Alfred North
"The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts with the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational analysis."
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."
"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."
"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."