Through and through the world is infested with quantity To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large.... How large It is no use saying the radium is scarce.... How scarce You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
More Quotes from Alfred North Whitehead:
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.Alfred North Whitehead
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Alfred North Whitehead
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Alfred North Whitehead
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Alfred North Whitehead
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
Alfred North Whitehead
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race.
Alfred North Whitehead
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Music Quotes, Quantity Quotes, Sense & Perception Quotes, World QuotesBased on Keywords: evade, infested, octaves, radium
In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.
Barbara Steele
Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.
Morgan Brittany
I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
Dr. Dre