“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.”

English mathematician and philosopher

Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known for founding process philosophy, a school of thought that influenced work across several fields. His ideas have been taken up in ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology. Whitehead’s writing is valued for its broad reach and for the way it connects abstract philosophical ideas with questions in the natural and social sciences.