WHITEHEAD

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race... it would be impossible to imagine anything more un-Christlike than theology. Christ probably couldn't have understood it.

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.

It requires a very unusual mind to make an analysis of the obvious.

Learning is often spoken of as if we were watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.