7 Alfred North Whitehead Quotes on Learning

Alfred North Whitehead quotes on learning

7. The 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.

19. Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

21. The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

23. That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

43. Error is the price we pay for progress.

54. Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of the infinitude.

75. Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.