3 Alfred North Whitehead Quotes on Theory

Alfred North Whitehead quotes on theory

10. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts': all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles.

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

40. A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics.