Whitehead Quotes

People come out of prison and aren't treated like I've been treated. I didn't kill anybody. I didn't violate anybody's rights. My rights were violated. Nobody likes to be hated, but the whole world hated Mary Beth Whitehead.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.