The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.


Process and Reality (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2010) - ISBN: 9781439118368

Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin...

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin...

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin...

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin...