More quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
"The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance."
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
"In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed."
"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."