Who is Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.In his early career Whitehead wrote primarily on mathematics, logic, and physics. His most notable work in these fields is the three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910–1913), which he wrote with former student Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica is considered one of the twentieth century's most important works in mathematical logic, and placed 23rd in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of th...Read Full Biography of Alfred North Whitehead
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- Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
- Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
- Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
- 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.
- The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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Hey_1028: "algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language."--by alfred north whiteheadTpmquiz: bertrand russell wrote the 3 volumes of principia mathematica with alfred north whitehead.
Hey_1028: "seek simplicity, and distrust it."--by alfred north whitehead
Myshkin08: "god does not create the world, he saves it: or, more accurately, he is the poet of the world, with tender patience leading it by his vision of truth, beauty and goodness" - alfred north whitehead
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