Alfred North Whitehead

“It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”

“Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman.”

“Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.”

“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”

“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”

“It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.”