Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
Alfred North WhiteheadEvery really new idea looks crazy at first.
Alfred North WhiteheadWe think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North WhiteheadNot ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
Alfred North WhiteheadMots clés math
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.
Alfred North WhiteheadMots clés science simple philosophy trust facts explanations complex
Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.
Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.
Mots clés reality creativity possibility growth limitation
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North WhiteheadGreat dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
Alfred North WhiteheadMots clés science shakespeare stars hamlet disappointment math william-shakespeare study mathematics ghost mental molecules grasp
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