“The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development”

“Every really new idea looks crazy at first.”

“When you are criticizing the philosophy of an epoch, do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which its exponents feel it necessary explicitly to defend. There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents to all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.”

“For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.”

“From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.”

“Великите мечтатели не само осъществяват мечтите си - те винаги ги надхвърлят!Лорд Алфред Уайтхед”

“Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.”