North Whitehead, Alfred

"We think in generalities, but we live in details."

"Every really new idea looks crazy at first."

"The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."

"One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering."

"Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." - An Introduction to Mathematics