Alfred North Whitehead
  • It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

  • 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.

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

  • Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

  • Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.